Word: balliol
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...started in 1880, when a portrayal of Agamemnon in Greek at Balliol College of Oxford stimulated the Harvard Greek department into action...
...years ago founded the now prosperous book-publishing house of Macmillan & Co., Ltd. Macmillan's mother, the former Helen Belles of Spencer, Ind., gave him what the English call "an American connection." Wealth and precocity led to good schools (Eton and Oxford), good marks (a first at Balliol), good regiment (Grenadier Guards), good military record (wounded three times in World War I), good marriage (the second daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire). To these accomplishments, Macmillan added personal qualities of ability, ambition, independence...
Byzantine Deceit. Like a lot of Frankish knights of the day,11th century Roussel de Balliol offered his sword for hire-and even then, before the Crusades, the steadiest work around was fighting the infidel. When Roussel and his troop of 300 mailed warriors got a chance to hire out to the Emperor of Byzantium to fight the Turks, he jumped at the chance. Out in Asia Minor, at the very frontiers of the Christian world, there were chances which a mercenary might never have in Europe...
Finley's duties at Oxford entail giving a total of 36 lectures of classes in the field of Classics. Attached to the Professorship is a professorial fellowship at Balliol College, which gives Finley the full rights of a senior member of the College. These include the Common Table and Senior Common Room privileges, and entitle him to a fiat...
...were sitting, port and cigar at hand, in the common room of some distant planet populated by Oxford dons, Professor Arnold Toynbee looks down on the world and its worries with the Long View of history. Man, says Toynbee, with a Balliol-bred benignity of wit and grace of phrasing, is but a scurrying creature on a cosmic anthill who may be, but is not necessarily, doomed. It all depends on how the scurriers respond to challenge...