Cambridge Pulls Ahead Of Oxford

As if the bronzes — story here.— in the Fitzwilliam, after lots of detective work at long last confidently attributed to Michelangelo, were not enough.

Just this past month a new BBC television series set in  Grantchester — which surely counts as Cambridge — appeared on American screens. This new series, with a most attractive crinkly-eyed young vicar (but without The Old Vicarage in view), promises at long last to give all those mysteries set in Oxford, such as that with Inspector Morse and the inspector-morse spin-off in which his former assistant attains to man’s estate and full-fledged detectivehood– a run for their money. The new series is called Grantchester.

Forget about Watson, Crick, Klug, forget about Russell and Whitehead and Moore, forget about Housman and Maitland and Butterfield. Cambridge has bronzes by Michelangelo, and a television series. For god’s sake, what else could one possibly want?  And there is honey still for tea.