Oxford asks prospective students : `` Would you rather be a novel or a poem ? '' Cambridge asks applicants : `` What would you do if you were a magpie ? '' The question is not whether the answer will be ``novel" but what kind of novel. `` Are they on drugs , these people in Cambridge ? '' Observer on the street describes questions as `` totally out there really ''
Oxford asks prospective students : `` Would you rather be a novel or a poem ? '' Cambridge asks applicants : `` What would you do if you were a magpie ? '' The question is not whether the answer will be ``novel" but what kind of novel. Observer on the street describes questions as `` totally out there really ''