Talk:John Ford (dramatist)

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Article history

Please note that the original version of this article was set up by Deb using text from John Ford, and she turned John Ford into a disambiguation page. Please see the page history of John Ford for attributions of authorship. -- Oliver P. 20:47, 6 Aug 2003 (UTC)

Update: The page referred to above is now John Ford (disambiguation). Please see that page's history for attributions of authorship. --Paul A 03:56, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Surely it would have been far from impossible for a not-yet-sixteen-year-old to have been admitted to Exeter College Oxford around 1600? Even 150 years later, such admissions were common, for example, in Scottish universities.81.158.101.97 (talk) 09:26, 1 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Going up to Oxford

Whoever wrote that Ford couldn't have been up at Oxford "but this was when the dramatist had not yet reached his sixteenth birthday" clearly has no idea what they're talking about. There were children half that age at Cambridge and Oxford, and 16-year olds with Masters degrees already long since studying law (by 14 commonly). Of course that doesn't mean they were actually learning anything. Or even got a degree. Somebody is anachronistically projecting their modern values and actual ignorance backwards to an era where neither in fact belongs. Cordially, 2600:4040:5AEF:B400:CA16:E8AC:70D1:5B5D (talk) 02:10, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]