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Porterhouse Blue: (Porterhouse Blue Series 1) By Tom Sharpe

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______________________________The 'endlessly funny' novel widely regarded as a classic of comic English literaturePorterhouse College is world renowned for its gastronomic excellence, the arrogance of its Fellows, its academic mediocrity and the social cache it confers on the athletic sons of country families.Sir Godber Evans, ex-Cabinet Minister and the new Master, is determined to change all this. Spurred on by his politically angular wife, Lady Mary, he challenges the established order and provokes the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor, the Bursar and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter - with hilarious and catastrophic results.

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An English university, such as Cambridge, in the late 1950's, was almost the same place it was in 1550. Tom Sharpe recreates life at the WORST college at Cambridge, a college that admits students based on the size of their families' contribution to the college endowment, where students are not students, but rich young louts who spend their time getting drunk and chasing local shop girls, where the teaching staff care nothing about teaching, but do care about eating gourmet meals, and graduate students are paid to take final exams for students who spend exam day drinking in a bar."Porterhouse Blue" is a funny story about what happens when a "liberal" politician is appointed the master of this terrible college, and he proposes to admit women as students, accept students based upon academic ability rather than family wealth, and finance upgrades to the academic program by replacing gourmet faculty meals with a self-serve cafeteria.The new master is soon at war with the entire staff of the college, who want it to remain as it has been for 500 years, a place for rich young men to drink while the faculty do no work and eat like lords. His most dangerous opponent is the "Head Porter", a position that does not exist at an American college. The Head Porter, who did not complete high school, is supervising all non-teaching activities at the college, including the women who make the beds for the students and clean their rooms, the purchasing of supplies, the running of the kitchen and dining room, and the upkeep of the grounds and buildings.The Head Porter has a tiny "official" salary, but he has become wealthy by arranging for smart graduate students to take final exams for rich, drunken undergraduates. After 40 years, the former college boys who cheated on exams have used their phony Cambridge diploma and their family's wealth and power to rise to the very top of British business, industry, and even key positions in the British government.So, while the new Master has the backing of the British prime minister who appointed him, the Head Porter can call in numerous allies from the highest levels of power.Although American universities do not have "Head Porters", anyone who has been at a university when a new President, Provost or Dean tries to change the school in any significant way will recognize this story. The tenured faculty of a college are quite sure that the college exists to serve the faculty, and any effort to reduce their power, or to require them to work more than 12 or 14 hours a week for about 30 weeks a year will encounter violent opposition.By the way, although the Master may have been fighting a losing battle in 1960, by 2014, his side of the battle is winning. Oxford and Cambridge, just like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, now have women as both students and faculty. Most college students in England are admitted based on academic merit, although a large share still come from the ultra-exclusive schools such as Eton. From time to time, Oxford and Cambridge even take a few students from low-income inner city neighborhoods who have no relatives known as "Lord" or "Lady".


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