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Already a recipient of numerous scholarship awards, in his Senior year Mr. Nichols received a Rhodes Scholarship and went to England where he studied for a year at Balliol College, Oxford. His appointment as assistant dean of Freshmen at Harvard was announced in the spring of 1927, and he returned in the fall to take up his duties as Freshman dean, sharing the responsibility with Mitchell Gratwick '22, who is also resigning at the end of his two years of service. Both men will continue in office until the end of the present college year...
...Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, gives the first of two lectures on "Some New Forms of Public Opinion", under the Godkin endowment, this afternoon: The lectures will be at 4.30 o'clock in Emerson D. Another visiting lecturer will be heard this evening, when Professor Naumann of the University of Frankfort speaks on "Geshichte des Puppenspiels in Deutschland" in Emerson D at 8 o'clock...
...committee of selection which chose McGovern as Scholar-at-large was presided over by Dr. A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, who is at present giving the Cooper Foundation Lectures at Swarthmore College and who will deliver the Godkin Lectures at Harvard on February 5 and 7. The other members of the committee, all former Rhodes Scholars, were H. A. Moe of New York, Scholar-at-large from Minnesota in 1919. Professor R. M. Scoon, of Princeton, 1907 Rhodes Scholar from New York, George Hurley '11, of Providence. 1907 Rhodes Scholar from Rhode Island, and A. C. Valentine...
...individuality is fostered, strengthened, and tested by the collegiate system, as our English universities have proven by long experience", adds Professor Sisson. But, as Professor, Richardson says in "Study of the Liberal College" (1924): "Of course there are great differences between the various colleges . . . Some of them, such as Balliol and New College, have set themselves toward a marked degree of scholastic excellence . . . It is very difficult for a college to change its status. In the first place it has acquired a constituency of a fairly definite type . . ." The Harvard plan, painstakingly whitewashed as it has been of all traces...
...Temple. But just when he might have been admitted to the British bar he suddenly chose the cloth for the gown. His father was one of the moderators of the Presbyterian Church in Scotland. † The son preferred the more hierarchal Church of England for his career. Studies at Balliol College, Oxford (after a period at Glasgow University) had something to do with his decision. By 1901 he had become Bishop of Stepney and Canon of St. Paul's, London, and used to work with the grubby, grimy poor. In 1907, Edward VII offered him the Bishopric of Montreal...