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...addition to those mentioned above, other speakers on the afternoon program were: Stanley Baldwin, Chancellor of Cambridge University, from England via shortwave; Learned Hand '93, president of the Alumni Association; Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, Master of Balliol and vice-Chancellor of Oxford University; and George Russell Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overseers...
Oxford University is to be represented by its Vice-President and Master of Balliol College, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, with more music by the Tercentenary Chorus preceding the closing addresses and adjournment until 2036 by George R. Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overscors, and President Conant...
...will be the most horrible of horribles and possibly this generation will be called on to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives.'' William Ebor,* as he signs his letters to the London Times, is an enlightened, erudite divine, son of a onetime headmaster to Oxford's Balliol, lectured in philosophy at Queen's, became headmaster of Repton before he ascended to the bishopric of Manchester. That northern see, with its industrial pinch, led Dr. Temple politically to the Left of his colleague of Canterbury, into the Labor Party and on to the presidency of its Workers...
...Governor-General approached this week, Canadians rattled off to each other the astonishingly various milestones of his career: Born to a cousin of Gladstone; prizeman at Glasgow Uni-versity and Oxford and President of the Oxford Union; member of the "Balliol Kindergarten";* secret service operative and organizer of the Foreign Office's propaganda bureau during the World War; writer of a World War history in serial form which patriotic parents still give children in the United Kingdom; Director of Information under Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1917-18); M. P. since 1927 for the Scottish Universities; twice...
Eldest of eight children, whose father was a successful tutor, Henry Watson Fowler had a solid, no-nonsense British education at Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including...