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- "Line2": "The installation ceremony for the Rector of Aberdeen University",
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- "Line2": "Recent research at Aston University",
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- "Line2": "Legend has it that students who are standing",
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- "Line2": "The men's hockey team at Bristol University is sponsored by",
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- "Line2": "but uncertain how this might best be arranged.",
- "Line3": "I joined the Liberals, the Labour Party and the Conservative Party",
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- "Line2": "Girton, Cambridge, has a weekly newsletter,",
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- "Line2": "The official name of Jesus, Cambridge,",
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- "Line2": "When Magdalene, Cambridge,",
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- "Line2": "Advice for PUSH:",
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- "Line4": "-Stephen Fry."
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- "Line2": "'I just didn't have anything in common with students.",
- "Line3": "I thought that the people I knew in my home town were brighter.'",
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- "Line2": "Oliver Cromwell's skull is buried in the ante-chapel of",
- "Line3": "Sidney Sussex, Cambridge, and when the fellows toast the Queen,",
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- "Line2": "The Trinity Foot Beagles at Cambridge kill hares.",
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- "Line2": "The bar at Emmanuel, Cambridge",
- "Line3": "has been renamed the Parkinson/Yeo,",
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- "Line1": "Tops Pizza, on Fulham Palace Road,",
- "Line2": "delivers a pizza to someone connected with",
- "Line3": "Charing Cross Hospital every",
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- "Line3": "Cheltenham and Gloucester SU has a cat called Josephine."
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- "Line2": "'Always plan for practice fire alarms at 3 in the morning,",
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- "Line4": "-Michael Fish, weatherman."
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- "Line2": "'Political correctness is a creature of silly women",
- "Line3": "and people badly educated at polytechnics masquerading as universities.'",
- "Line4": "-Brian Sewell, art critic."
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- "Line2": "Chuck Berry's 1972 hit 'My Ding-a-Ling'",
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- "Line4": "now part of Coventry University."
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- "Line2": "The University of East London forced the BBC to announce",
- "Line3": " that the university in 'EastEnders' is entirely fictional,",
- "Line4": "and that no member of staff at UEL has ever slept with a fictional character."
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- "Line2": "Because of an architect's error,",
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- "Line4": "was built back-to-front."
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- "Number": 22,
- "Line2": "In 1953, just before the Coronation, students from Glasgow University",
- "Line3": "pinched the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey,",
- "Line4": "and took it back to Scotland. Sure beats traffic cones."
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- "Number": 23,
- "Line2": "The Greenwich University Rag was banned",
- "Line3": "when students blocked the Dartford tunnel",
- "Line4": "with the cannon from Woolwich barracks."
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- "UID": "H72",
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- "Line2": "We're sick of them wasting our money on pathetic marches,",
- "Line3": "demos and women's things.",
- "Line4": " We should tell students' union leaders to go stuff themselves.'",
- "Line5": "-Brian Hitchens, editor of the 'Sunday Express'."
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- "Line2": "When Philip Larkin was librarian at Hull University,",
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- "Line3": "Imperial College, London has its own nuclear reactor."
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- "Number": 28,
- "Line3": "'Keele' is Old English for 'Cow-Hill'."
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- "Number": 29,
- "Line2": "The architect who designed the Rutherford accommodation building",
- "Line3": "at the University of Kent was also responsible for",
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- "Line2": "The first person to be caught for speeding",
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- "Line3": "Edwina Currie is an honorary member of Liverpool Guild of Students."
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- "Line2": "Cilla Black declined an honorary fellowship",
- "Line3": "of Liverpool John Moores University,",
- "Line4": "after students objected."
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- "Number": 33,
- "Line2": "Loughborough University has warned its students that",
- "Line3": "they could face 7 years' imprisonment for",
- "Line4": "stealing traffic cones."
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- "UID": "L93",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 34,
- "Line2": "Space at Luton University is so tight that",
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- "Line4": "in a disused lorry factory in Dunstable."
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- "Number": 35,
- "Line2": "Past competitors on 'University Challenge'",
- "Line3": "include",
- "Line4": "Stephen Fry, David Mellor, Clive James, John Simpson and Malcolm Rifkind."
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- "Number": 36,
- "Line2": "The Trent Park Site of Middlesex University",
- "Line3": "originally belonged to poet Siegfried Sassoon,",
- "Line4": "who held orgies in the surrounding woods."
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- "UID": "N21",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 37,
- "Line2": "Members of the Newcastle University rugby club",
- "Line3": "have appeared naked in",
- "Line4": "an advert for Newcastle Brown Ale."
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- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 38,
- "Line3": "Nottingham Trent University has a Trophy Cabinet Appreciation Society."
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- "Line2": "The original Alice in Wonderland",
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- "Line2": "Merton College, Oxford, has an annual 'Time Ceremony'.",
- "Line3": " When the clocks are turned back at 2am,",
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- "Line2": "The Queen's College, Oxford,",
- "Line3": "is allowed to shut down the High Street",
- "Line4": "for archery practice."
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- "Number": 43,
- "Line2": "In 1881, the entire student body of University College, Oxford,",
- "Line3": "was sent down,",
- "Line4": "after the Dean's Room was screwed shut, with the Dean inside."
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- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 44,
- "Line2": "The new Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University",
- "Line3": "is Helena Kennedy,",
- "Line4": "one-time barrister to the Guildford Four."
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- "Number": 45,
- "Line2": "One of the proposed name-changes for the old Polytechnic South-West was",
- "Line3": "the New University of Devon Institute of Science and Technology",
- "Line4": "(NUDIST)."
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- "Number": 46,
- "Line2": "The original site of Reading University",
- "Line3": "was",
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- "UID": "R72",
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- "Number": 47,
- "Line2": "A local petition against a proposed hall of residence at Royal Holloway",
- "Line3": "claimed that local businesses would decline as",
- "Line4": "students do not require anything except cheap food."
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- "UID": "S01",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 48,
- "Line1": "'Go to St Andrew's for the golf, if nothing else.",
- "Line2": "It is one of the town's best, and, of course, most famous attractions.",
- "Line3": "Perhaps, however, I spent a little too much time playing golf,",
- "Line4": "especially late at night.'",
- "Line5": "-Alex Salmond MP, leader SNP."
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- "UID": "S10",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 49,
- "Line2": "'Have you seen how many people have gone back to school now?",
- "Line3": "It just keeps the unemployment figures down",
- "Line4": "and produces millions of half-educated old coots. '",
- "Line5": "-Mark E Smith (The Fall) holds forth on mature students."
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- "UID": "S18",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 50,
- "Line3": "The Sheffield Rag once decided to paint a zebra crossing on the M1."
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- {
- "UID": "S22",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 61,
- "Line2": "During Rag week at Shrivenham,",
- "Line3": "the planes and tanks on display are",
- "Line4": "painted pink."
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- {
- "UID": "S87",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 51,
- "Line2": "Surrey Rag covered the University's geodesic dome",
- "Line3": "in red sheets for Comic Relief,",
- "Line4": "creating the world's largest red nose."
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- {
- "UID": "S90",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 52,
- "Line3": "Sussex University has the sunniest campus in Britain."
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- {
- "UID": "T40",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 53,
- "Line2": "The rock music diploma course",
- "Line3": "at Thames Valley University",
- "Line4": "has a strict 'no grunge' policy."
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- {
- "UID": "U15",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 54,
- "Line2": "The Cannabis Awareness Society at UEA arranges",
- "Line3": "fact-finding tours to Amsterdam, and has appeared on Radio 4",
- "Line4": "to promote the supposed benefits of the weed."
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- {
- "UID": "U20",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 55,
- "Line1": "When 'Mastermind' was filmed at Ulster University,",
- "Line2": "students kidnapped the Black Chair.",
- "Line3": "When the BBC refused to pay a ransom,",
- "Line4": "the chair was pushed into the River Bann."
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- {
- "UID": "U40",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 56,
- "Line2": "UMIST's collection of modern art includes a sculpture of Pacioli,",
- "Line3": "the hugely interesting creator of",
- "Line4": "double-entry book-keeping."
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- "UID": "U80",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 57,
- "Line1": "'All the useless' bits",
- "Line2": "of information and experiences",
- "Line3": "which you get impatient about",
- "Line4": "turn out to be just what you need 30 or 40 years later.'",
- "Line5": "-Rabbi Lionel Blue."
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- "UID": "W05",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 58,
- "Line2": "The central computer sytem of the University of Wales",
- "Line3": "crashed recently, when a student downloaded too much",
- "Line4": "hardcore pornography."
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- {
- "UID": "A20",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 95,
- "Line2": "The murals in the Sivell's Bar at Aberdeen University were originally nudes,",
- "Line3": "but they were thought a bit racy for the 1930s,",
- "Line4": "so clothes were added. Boo! Hiss!"
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- "UID": "B56",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 3,
- "Line2": "Bradford University",
- "Line3": "offers the country's only degree course in",
- "Line4": "Yorkshire Studies."
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- {
- "UID": "B56",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 4,
- "Line2": "The Richmond Building at Bradford University",
- "Line3": "has slid 8 inches downhill",
- "Line4": "in the last 20 years."
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- {
- "UID": "B78",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 6,
- "Line3": "One of the new accommodation blocks at Bristol is a converted Berni Inn."
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- "UID": "B78",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 7,
- "Line2": "Students at Bristol can join",
- "Line3": "SFPTOTOOT",
- "Line4": "- the Society For Putting Things On Top Of Other Things."
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- "UID": "B90",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 8,
- "Line2": "The Chancellor of Buckingham University",
- "Line3": "is Lady Thatcher",
- "Line4": "and the Vice-Chancellor used to be one of her ministers."
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- "UID": "C05",
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- "Line2": "Students at Cambridge can join the Sheila and Her Dog Society,",
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- "Line4": "while they have bedtime stories read to them."
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- "UID": "C30",
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- "Line2": "A lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire",
- "Line3": "was recently jailed for",
- "Line4": "making bombs for the IRA."
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- "UID": "C60",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 24,
- "Line2": "Students from City University were responsible",
- "Line3": "for starting the non-stop vigil",
- "Line4": "outside the South African Embassy in London, in the early eighties."
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- {
- "UID": "C60",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 25,
- "Line2": "The mascot of City University Rag",
- "Line3": "is a lifesize carrot",
- "Line4": "which went to the Lord Mayor's Ball and met Mr Blobby."
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- "UID": "E70",
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- "Number": 29,
- "Line3": "Rabbits out number students on the University of Essex campus."
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- "UID": "E84",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 31,
- "Line2": "When Thom Yorke (of Radiohead) was at Exeter,",
- "Line3": "he played in a band called the Headless Chickens,",
- "Line4": "who performed a song titled 'I Don't Want To Go To Glastonbury'."
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- {
- "UID": "G14",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 32,
- "Line2": "A former head of Glamorgan University rag",
- "Line3": "held the record for",
- "Line4": "standing in a bucket of maggots."
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- "UID": "G56",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 34,
- "Line2": "Punk guru Malcolm McLaren was",
- "Line3": "Vice-President of",
- "Line4": "Goldsmiths' College SU."
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- {
- "UID": "H60",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 36,
- "Line2": "Huddersfield University is building a teaching and accommodation block",
- "Line3": "on the site of",
- "Line4": "the largest psychiatric hospital in Europe."
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- {
- "UID": "H72",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 40,
- "Line2": "The registrar and finance director of Hull University",
- "Line3": "agreed to live on £10 each for a week,",
- "Line4": "to see what life was like for hard-pressed students."
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- {
- "UID": "I50",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 42,
- "Line2": "A former President of Imperial College, London",
- "Line3": "changed his name to",
- "Line4": "Sidney Harbour-Bridge."
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- {
- "UID": "K84",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 46,
- "Line2": "Eric Clapton was thrown out of",
- "Line3": "Kingston Poly (now University)",
- "Line4": "without finishing his course."
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- {
- "UID": "L14",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 47,
- "Line1": "Students at Lancaster claim that",
- "Line2": "Alex Square on campus is named after Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins,",
- "Line3": "the snooker player and non-teetotaller.",
- "Line4": "Sadly, it is in fact named in honour of",
- "Line5": "Princess Alexandra, the University Chancellor. Boooooring."
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- {
- "UID": "L23",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 48,
- "Line2": "Leeds University contains the longest corridor in Europe",
- "Line3": "and",
- "Line4": "the Union is the UK's biggest retailer of beer."
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- {
- "UID": "L23",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 49,
- "Line2": "A student at Leeds University",
- "Line3": "was fined £300",
- "Line4": "for playing his Walkman too loudly on a train."
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- {
- "UID": "L41",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 52,
- "Line2": "The Guild Building at",
- "Line3": "Liverpool University",
- "Line4": "houses Europe's largest toilet complex."
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- {
- "UID": "L79",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 54,
- "Line1": "One of the main entrances to Loughborough University",
- "Line2": "is nicknamed 'The Bastard Gates'",
- "Line3": "because",
- "Line4": "they were presented by Sir William Bastard,",
- "Line5": "a former chairman of the University governors."
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- {
- "UID": "N63",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 59,
- "Line1": "The Jesus and Mary Chain played at",
- "Line2": "the Polytechnic (now University) of North London in the mid 80s.",
- "Line3": "They performed for 15 minutes and refused to do an encore.",
- "Line4": "The crowd rioted."
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- "Line2": "One idea for a name for Newcastle's second university was",
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- "Line4": "until, someone decided the acronym wouldn't look so hot on letterheads."
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- "UID": "O66",
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- "Number": 69,
- "Line3": "One of the sites of Oxford Brookes used to be owned by Robert Maxwell."
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- "UID": "P80",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 71,
- "Line1": "In 1994 students at Portsmouth",
- "Line2": "were housed temporarily in a naval barracks.",
- "Line3": "They were subject to naval discipline,",
- "Line4": "had to stand to attention when the flag was raised",
- "Line5": "and were forbidden from mixing with the opposite sex."
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- "UID": "S18",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 77,
- "Line2": "Researchers at Sheffield University",
- "Line3": "have developed a contraceptive pill for",
- "Line4": "squirrels."
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- "UID": "S27",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 78,
- "Line1": "One of the modern sculptures at Southampton University",
- "Line2": "was designed to moan in the wind",
- "Line3": "but",
- "Line4": "the noise disturbed the Law Department,",
- "Line5": "so the holes had to be blocked up."
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- "UID": "S41",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 79,
- "Line2": "Jonathan Ross",
- "Line3": "denies he was ever a student at SSEES",
- "Line4": "but Irene in the canteen remembers him."
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- "UID": "T40",
- "UCC": "0",
- "Number": 83,
- "Line2": "The head of the law department",
- "Line3": "at Thames Valley",
- "Line4": "also teaches kite-flying."
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- {
- "UID": "U40",
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