Word: baliol
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...this marriage, which will put a Swedish princess on the throne of Norway, will soothe the Swedes' ruffled pride and heal the breach between the two countries. Prince Olaf is the only child of the King and Queen of Norway and has just spent a year at Baliol College, Oxford, England; he is 22. Princess Astrid (a Scandinavian name pronounced "Arstree") is just 20 and is a very pretty girl; she is the youngest daughter of Prince Charles of Sweden, a brother of the King. Her father Prince Charles is one of the handsomest men in Europe. Princess Astrid...
...place, the interpretation of Mr. Hampden, scholarly and earnest as it is, seems somehow to fail the Moor. He plays Othello resonantly and with determination. Always he plays it; never does he bring the suffering soldier to life. Furthermore, the Desdemona of Jeannette Sherwin is distinctly under standard. Iago (Baliol Holloway, Englishman) gives a curiously individual, irritating and yet undeniably admirable performance...
Captained Baliol Golf Team...
MacKintosh, the son of a professor at Edinburgh University, served in the Royal Navy during the World War. When the war ended, however, he transferred to Oxford University, where he entered Baliol College. While at Baliol he was elected captain of the golf team and was a member of the Rugby Eleven, at the same time maintaining such a high standard in his scholastic work that he succeeded in winning the scholarship which brought him to Princeton...
...more unobtainable. It was plain that the speaker, like every American who has been at Oxford and made a success there, felt keenly that no intellectual experience of his student life either at Harvard or in Europe has been as fine as his contact with his tutors at Baliol. The most justifiable kind of envy is the envy of a man caught in the machinery of one sort of educational mill for the chaps who are in another mill which he is perfectly certain has a better process than his own; better, that is, for him if he could have...