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Viscount Sir Edward Grey has long been engaged in governmental and diplomatic service. He was educated at Balliol College, and soon after graduation was appointed an under-secretary of Foreign Affairs, in which capacity he served until 1895. From 1905-16 he acted as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and in this position had practically the entire charge of British Foreign Affairs during the trying days of the fall of 1914, immediately preceding and following England's entrance into the war. He resigned his office in 1916, and thereafter has been a Member of Parliament...
...they get, and that the cruel undergraduate, though he may ride an instructor to death in the classroom, is human enough not to want the poor fellow's children to die in a garret. The last paragraph is perhaps out of place. "At Oxford," said the immortal master of Balliol, "not even the youngest of us is infallible...
Colonel Sir Walter Lawrence was educated at Cheltenham College and Balliol College, Oxford. As a scholar he is widely known for his book, "The Valley of Kashmir," which is the standard work on that country and is based upon the author's experience as reorganizer of the state of Kashmir...
...over to Oxford in spite of the war. These scholarships bring an annual stipend of $1500 which lasts for three years. This sum is sufficient to meet all current expenses at Oxford, and to enable considerable travelling during the summer. Information may be secured from G. H. Gifford '13, Balliol College, Oxford, England, who is one of the present scholarship holders from Massachusetts or from President Lowell, who is chairman of the Massachusetts Committee of Selection...
William Chase Greene '11, of Baltimore, Md., now at Balliol College, Oxford, as Rhodes Scholar from Massachusetts, has been awarded the Charles Oldham Prize for an essay on "The Sean in the Greek Poets." This prize, consisting of sixty pounds, is awarded annually for the best essay on a subject connected with Greek and Latin literature. During the last hundred years it has been won by such men as John Ruskin. Matthew Arnold and Dean Stanley, Greene, however, is the first American to have captured this honor...