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Others named are Robert M. O'Clair 4G of Kirkland house and Cambridge, to study at Birkbeck College, London University; Burton E. Pike 1G of Perkins Hall and Newton Center, to study at the University of Strasbourg; and Andrew J. Posey, Jr. 2G of 4 Greenough Ave. and Yonkers, N.Y., to study at Tokyo University...
...autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create in London a center of humanistic studies such as no city in the world can boast...
...tutted the unseemly conduct of Major Walter Elliot, publicity-courting Minister of Agriculture, who permitted himself to be carried to the premises of Birkbeck College last week by two students dressed...
...Jeremiah (i.e. denunciatory pessimist) is Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, M.A., since 1930 Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Though he plays such cheerful games as tennis and hockey, Jeremiah Joad also sits long over the chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...
...Olga Birkbeck playing the part of the Marquise was really a contribution to the comedy. The play will continue for some time...