The Importance of Studying Russian

As the months passed I began to feel that since I could hold my own with these boys in Russian, maybe I ought to have another shot at getting a scholarship myself. There was no practical advantage to getting a scholarship, it carried more prestige, certainly but no more money. At Oxford scholars wore a longer gown than commoners, and had an extra year in college rather than in digs. In the meantime I reduced everything I knew to a set of notes with answers to possible questions and odd eye-catching quotations - all written out on a series of 40 or 50 correspondence cards. Such illusions and the dissolutions that inevitably came with them were I see now as significant as any examinations I did or