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...mile-long driveway through fields full of pheasants leads to the 365-room Tudor mansion of Lancaster stone in the Lincolnshire countryside, 100 miles from London. Inside Harlaxton Manor, the glow of a 15-foot crystal chandelier reflects from marble floors in a 134-year-old room, once a Jesuit chapel. And on the great staircase, a leggy young blonde from Stanford University remarks: "Gee, nobody but nobody gets to live in a place like this...
...changed from its ancient beginnings as an English country house except for the ceiling nudes, chastely painted over by the Jesuits who leased the building to Stanford. The students will play croquet on the well-trimmed lawns, shoot arrows in the gardens, ride to hounds with adjacent estate owners. Harlaxton Man or is the newest of Stanford's five permanent campuses in Europe...
Stanford students spend two quarters abroad, take a full 16-credit course load. They concentrate mainly on humanities, taught by Stanford teachers, and languages, taught by foreigners. At Harlaxton Manor, they will also hear top British professors lecture on British technology, social change, politics and education. They pay their regular Stanford board and tuition, plus half their plane fare (the university pays the rest) and about $70 for two field trips...