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BBC News By Sean Coughlan Published image captionMary Beard wants classics to be not just for "posh people" Historian Mary Beard is to fund scholarships for two disadvantaged students to study classics at Cambridge University, as a "retirement present". The Cambridge professor is stepping down next year after almost 40 years of teaching and research. She described the £80,000 donation as her "payback time". "I am very conscious of what Ive gained from classics, no-one from my family had a univ...