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George de Santillana, a graduate of the University of Rome, now at the New School for Social Research in New York City, has been appointed lecturer on the History of Science for one year. Roger A.B. Mynors, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and Frederick Sell, of Marburg-an-der-Lahn, Germany, have been appointed lecturers on Latin and German Literature respectively. Berbert W. Rand '97, associate professor of Zoology and tutor in Biology, has been appointed associate professor of Zoology, emeritus...
...raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner of Zenda). At that time he had no intention of going into any church. He studied...
...years ago, the Cambridge crew rowed proudly onto the Thames with the third lightest coxswain in Boat Race history-97-lb. J. M. Ranking. Hart Massey, 19, a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, now in his first year at Balliol, is less than 4 ft. tall, weighs 56 Ib. Using Coxswain Massey would give Oxford at least 50 Ib. weight advantage. It would also mean building a shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew...
...Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of Balliol, presided at the Convocation after being escorted in by two "guards" bearing sceptres and an awful dignity. Then there was much moving about and bowing of heads, and all the while most of us were wondering where Mr. Conant was. Presently, the guards left the Vice-Chancellor, and after much more bowing brought in Mr. Conant. Still more tipping of caps and bowing and Public Orator, Dr. C. Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then...
After three weeks he and Mrs. Conant went to London, where Mrs. Conant stayed, while the President went up to Oxford. He was entertained with A. D. Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor of the University and Master of Balliol College, and, while here, received the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws at a simple ceremony attended only by fifty Oxford faculty members. He also spent a weekend at Emanuel College Cambridge, of which he is a Fellow by virtue of his Presidency of Harvard...