Word: conways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conway was appointed as first section man in Professor Beer's Social Sciences 2 course. Beer, who served on the committee which awarded the Jay Prize in American and British History to Conway, was impressed by his academic ability, and introduced him to his Eliot House luncheon group. Conway also impressed the Eliot staff, and--as Master John H. Finley puts it--"he grew on Eliot House like the ivy on our walls." Finley appointed him as the House's first Allston Burr Senior Tutor in 1952. When he became Master of Leverett House this summer, Conway ended...
...Eliot House, Conway developed a deep interest in the antiquities of Greece. ("This is inevitable when you are under the influence of Finley," he says.) He spent the past summer traveling in a rented car through Greece and Sicily with a friend, inspecting the relics at Syracuse and Palermo, and visiting Athens, Rhodes and most of the Aegean area. Conway has also travelled extensively in rural France, and "can't quite choose between Rome and Paris as the most beautiful city in the world...
Last year Conway took a leave of absence to work at the Institute of Historical Research in London. He lived with a Polish family, the Starzewskis, and belonged to several London clubs. Starzewski, the Foreign Minister of the Polish government-in-exile, was "a warm and friendly person, but he and his family lived in a vanished world," Conway says...
...bachelor, Conway found London club life very pleasant, and almost indispensible. He enjoyed the warm atmosphere at meals, and made regular use of the club libraries. "England is a world of institution," he says, "and a bachelor always has his clubs...
...Conway is a serious student of British and Canadian history, and has a well-conceived vision of the Common-wealth. He is often commended for his "understanding of the transition from Empire to Commonwealth." His Ph.D. thesis was a study of "The Round Table," an important group of publicists and politicians which emerged from Oxford in the late 1890's and joined in an association in London. They were influential in settling the Boer War and in writing the new South African constitution...