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...University of Vienna on his thesis. "The Coronation of Charlemagne" (grade: A+). Known for wearing lederhosen even in winter, Kreisler says that "I don't think I have ever consciously considered grades as a goal." A Marshall scholar, headed for two years at Oxford's Balliol College, he wants to be a teacher-scholar. His main interest is man's "preservation of the ability to adapt to accelerating revolutions." As though for the nation's entire class of 1961, he sums up: "Our job now is to keep changing, keep responding, keep living...
...period following the Persian war for Athens a time of suppressed and great and bitter decisions," Russell Moiggs, Fellow and of Balliol College, Oxford, last in concluding the second of this Jackson Lectures, he chose to on Athens from about...
...late '30's of the fifth century B.C., Pericles told the Athenians that their empire was a tyranny." With this as his background, Russell Meiggs, Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, proceeded last night to reconstruct Athenian history from 465-450 B.C. in the first part of this year's Jackson Lectures on "The Crisis of Athenian Imperialism...
Southern, a Fellow of Balliol College Oxford, is Chichele Professor of History, Designate, at All Soul's College...
C.N.S. Mukasa of Uganda, like a Zen master suggesting but never defining, described the African personality as "mystical and yet very tangible to us." As it emerges from colonial rule, Africa feels a compelling need to claim its own place among the world's peoples, he said. However, the Balliol-educated intellectual cautioned against "throwing away" all traces of the colonial inheritance, for Africa will develop an eclectic civilization...