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  3. Odds and quads - 11 July 2013

    These Tudor-era playing cards were found in the Muniment Room at Christ’s College, Cambridge, during renovation works in the 1960s and now reside in the College Library

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  4. Appointments - 11 July 2013

    British Institute of International and Comparative LawJan van Zyl SmitAn academic expert on reforms to the judiciary in states undergoing constitutional change has been made a research fellow of the...

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  8. Hidden roots manoeuvre

    I was interested to see that Open University researchers are trying to map every tree in the UK (Campus round-up, June). The problem is, of course, that they won’t see the wood.Michael...

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  9. Stoned to ease your bones

    There is growing evidence that marijuana may be helpful in the treatment of chronic pain, so I thought for a moment that approaching old age was about to become a little more pleasant when I read of...

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  10. Contact assessment

    For two reasons, John Linfoot’s letter on “costing” student contact time made me smile (“Contact lenses”, Letters, 4 July). On the one hand, his figures are awry: the figure of 300 notional “contact...

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  11. Applied mythology

    Even as a mere master’s student at St Anne’s College, Oxford, I was astounded by the antiquated and conflicting claims made by Anthony Rodriguez (Letters, June).First he refers to the “bizarre ordeal...

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  12. Pride and past prejudice

    Wes Streeting is right that our universities must be places of empowerment and support for all students (“Leaders show how to build gay-friendly campus”, News,  June). An interesting area is how they...

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