Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cathedral of Oxford; All Souls, Keble, New and Wadham have wardens; Brasenose, Jesus and all the halls, or smaller colleges, have principals; Exeter and Lincoln have rectors; Oriel, Queen's and Worcester have provosts; Corpus Christi, Magdalen, St. John's and Trinity have presidents; University (the oldest college), Balliol and Pembroke have masters...
...fifteen, in the last year of Dr. Arnold's head-mastership, and was at once placed in the next to the highest form, and would have been placed in the highest had the rules of the school allowed a new student that rank. At eighteen he gained the Balliol scholarship, and, in spite of a year's illuess, carried off the Ireland scholarship, and took his degree, an old-fashioned "Double-First," at the age of twenty-four...
...Parker, a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, has been appointed instructor in Freshman Latin...
Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, and better known to the American public through his fascinating translations of Plato and Thucydides, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. This fact gains interest as marking another step towards freedom of thought in the great centre of British conservatism. Counted by years it is not long since Mr. Jowett, having been excluded from the university pulpit, was threatened with prosecution for heresy, and denied his legitimate salary of professor of Greek. Now, without any change of opinion on his part, he has been appointed to the highest active office...
...Alban Hall is thus the first of the halls to suffer extinction. Magdalen Hall was some years since endowed by Mr. Baring, and received a charter of incorporation as Hertford College. St. Mary Hall, New Inn Hall and St. Edmund Hall are ultimately destined to absorption by Oriel, Balliol and Queen's colleges, respectively...