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...allows “American scholars of the highest distinction” to lecture at Oxford for one year. Frederick Schauer, Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at the KSG, will serve as a visiting professor for the 2007-08 academic year, and will concurrently hold a fellowship at Balliol College at Oxford. Schauer, one of the nation’s foremost authorities on the First Amendment, political theory, and constitutional law, said he first learned of his candidacy for the position when the faculty at Harvard Law School (HLS) selected him as their nominee...
...Georgia-born Boorstin, who was also a Crimson editor, enrolled at Harvard. He was named a Rhodes Scholar and after graduation attended Balliol College at Oxford University. In 1940, he received a doctorate from Yale University...
After completing his service, Knowles returned to Oxford, enrolling in the prestigious Balliol College, where he earned a B.A. in chemistry in 1959 and a masters in the same subject two years later. In 1960, he married Jane Sheldon Davis, also the daughter of an academic...
...training, Knowles is a research enzymologist. After obtaining his D.Phil. in Chemistry from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1961, he went on to teach and research as a tutor and fellow of Wadham, another Oxford University college...
...dreaming spires are in theirs. It would seem from this movie that Evelyn Waugh and all the other novelists who made the world aware of what it was like to be young, gifted and absolutely tops in an elitist society could safely drop in for tea at Oriel or Balliol or any of their formative haunts and feel utterly at home. And this despite the decades of welfarism and general leveling that have wrought so many changes in the rest of British life...