Word: balliol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Revolution," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1923. A past president of the American Historical Society, he is a prominent member of numerous American and British historical associations. He has done a great deal of research in England, and as recently as 1944 he was a resident member of Balliol College, Oxford...
Editor Connolly, 42, who looks like a plump, middle-aged baby, is the grandson of an admiral, and the son of an Army officer. He went to Eton and Balliol, where he studied the classics, served the late Logan Pearsall Smith as secretary and disciple, covered the Spanish war for the New Statesman. Rejected for World War II, he mounted the cultural ramparts instead...
...liturgies of half a dozen conflicting sects; on their way to St. Barnabas, St. Columba, St. Aloysius, St. Mary's, Pusey House. Blackfriars ... all in the summer sunshine going to the temples of their race. Four proud infidels alone proclaimed their dissent: four Indians from the gates of Balliol, in freshly laundered white flannels and neatly pressed blazers, with snow-white turbans on their heads, and in their plump, brown hands bright cushions, a picnic basket and the Unpleasant Plays of Bernard Shaw...
...classicist, Hammond is one of the few men to hold teaching positions in two departments, being in both the Classics and the History departments. Among his other distinctions are a degree summa cum laude from the College, a Rhodes Scholarship, and the degrees of B. A. and B.Litt. from Balliol College, Oxford. From 1937 to 1939 he was Professor in Charge of the School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome...
...next stop. Q lived in Cardinal Newman's old rooms, bathed in His Eminence's old tin bath. He paid the customary Sunday calls on fellow undergraduates in morning dress and top hat. He watched Poet Matthew Arnold (in lavender kid gloves) "slipping through the Balliol gateway" on visits to Platonist Benjamin Jowett (who seemed to be always "hurrying, like Puck, to 'hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear'"). He saw Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater...