That's DOCTOR middle brother to you!
Dec. 14th, 2006 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemackMy middle brother James had his DPhil viva at Oxford this afternoon; he passed! And with typos but no corrections, which is more than I managed.
The thesis is on W H Auden and translation; James also writes poetry, and book reviews fearsome in attack and erudition alike. He's a good translator, too; if you have a quantity of Russian which would suit your purposes better in English, maybe you can hire him.
The thesis is on W H Auden and translation; James also writes poetry, and book reviews fearsome in attack and erudition alike. He's a good translator, too; if you have a quantity of Russian which would suit your purposes better in English, maybe you can hire him.
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Date: 2006-12-15 02:42 pm (UTC)says 'My thesis, entitled Permutation Groups, Error-Correcting Codes and Uncoverings, was examined on 21st December 2005, and was passed without corrections (no, I couldn't believe that either)', so it does happen; I could imagine Oxbridge having a uraltes policy of never passing immediately.
Googling on 'passed without corrections' gets everybody who put their boast of passing without corrections into their CV; there are at least a few pages of them