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...Ronnie" Knox, son of the late Anglican Bishop of Manchester, brother of Editor Edmund George Valpy ("Evoe") Knox of Punch, has been a man of letters since he wrote Latin and Greek epigrams at ten. Brought up an Anglican, he took holy orders soon after leaving Oxford's Balliol College, became Anglican chaplain of Trinity College. Converted to Catholicism before the War, he was ordained priest in 1919. In 1926, the year he became Oxford's chaplain, Father Knox scared England over the radio just as Orson Welles scared the U. S. last autumn: he broadcast a lurid...
...Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time as an "Independent Progressive...
Other visitors will be Kurt Lewin, professor of Child Psychology, University of Iowa; Roger A. B. Mynors, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in Latin Literature; Friedrich Sell, of Marburg-ander-Lahn, Germany, in German Literature; George de Santillana, of the New School for Social Research, New York City, in History of Science; and William H. Jellema, associate professor of Philosophy, Indiana University...
...Professor Greenenor Mr. Peebles present the course as well as concentrators believed they might, although the organization is all right. Latin Composition seems to be fairly well taught in Latin 3. The first half of Latin 8, dealing with Cicero and Lucretius, will be given by Mr. Mynors of Balliol College, Oxford. The second half on Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, is taken by Professor Pease to whom the adjective "old-fashioned" is applied...
...Raymond Walton, a recent graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, offers an authoritative and intriguing account of "The Oxford Man in Party Politics." To combat misconceptions about the aristocratic heritage of British university life he cites the fact that at his former alma mater "over half of the undergraduates are in receipt of financial assistance independent of family ties." His sketch of political clubs at Oxford and of students participation in party activities should be of great interest to Harvard men--all too often aloof from "politics...