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...basis of value inherent in the collegiate grouping and tutorial staffs in Oxford or Cambridge may fairly be summed up as personal contact, interest, and reaction. The head, tutors, and undergraduates are all members of one body. In the opinion of the late Dr. Arthur L. Smith, Master of Balliol, in most instances the tutor knows the undergraduate more intimately and thoroughly than do even his parents...
English biographical work), perhaps the greatest "late Victorian" authority on the life of Shakespeare, author of a biography of Edward VII (by request of George V) and of a fiercely criticized biography of Queen Victoria; at London. It was at the suggestion of the great Dr. Jowett of Balliol College, Oxford, that he altered his original name "Solomon Lazarus" to "Sidney Lee" (in order to attain literary eminence more easily...
Tonight's speaker is a graduate of Oxford, where he studied at Balliol. Since 1884, he has been engaged in journalism in London. From 1896-97, Mr. Strachey was editor of the Cornhill Magazine, and since 1897, he has been with the Spectator, whose list of editors he now heads. He has written books on various subjects, most of them on economics and sociological subjects. "The Madonna at the Barricades," his latest literary effort, is on the present generation...
...Strachey is a graduate of Oxford, where he took first class honors in history at Balliol College. Immediately following his graduation at Oxford, Mr. Strachey figured first as a journalist, and from 1896-97 as editor of the Corn-hill Magazine. Since 1897 he has been connected with the Spectator, the control of which has made him famous for the last ten years...
Professor Toynbee received his early education at Winchester. He was both scholar and fellow at the University of Oxford, where his college was Balliol...