In message , at 13:29:48 on Tue, 4
Jan 2005, Terry Harper remarked:
As regards punting, we had a JCR punt scheme, where the JCR hired a number
of punts for the summer term, one or two mat each of three locations, and
you put your name down when you wanted one.

IIRC there are fewer "riverside" colleges in Oxford, than Cambridge, so
perhaps there's more incentive to organise things like that.

Did a bit of punting from the wrong end of the boat in Cambridge in 1964,
when on a course there.

Oxford folk get plenty of training for punting at the wrong end, when
out on the Isis!
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Roland Perry