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...Archbishop of Canterbury's good friend, Banker John Pierpont Morgan. And last week old Oxford announced it would do the same for Sir William Richard Morris, British manufacturer of small motorcars. To William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and Senator, will go a suitable but less exciting honor: honorary Litt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Doctor Morris | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Oxford representatives are world-renowned scholars. Sir Henry A. Miers, M.A., D.Sc., Fellow of Magdalen College, is the chairman. He is professor of Mineralogy at Oxford. The director of the British Museum is also included in the group. He is Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, G.B.E., K.C.B., M.A., Hon. D. Litt., Hon. Fellow of New College and Magdalen College, and internationally known as an eminent classical scholar. The third man is Sir Edmund K. Chambers, K.B.E., M.A., Corpus Christi College, who is the author of several books on the history of the English theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD LIBRARIANS WILL SPEND THREE DAYS HERE | 10/11/1930 | See Source »

Congresswoman Ruth Sears Baker Pratt of New York Master of Humane Litt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: More Kudos | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

...seas high and wild. Instead of matriculating at Oxford he sought, while working as a handyman around a New York saloon, to learn the art of bartending but was never deemed sufficiently adept. No matter? his poems sold. He went to Oxford in 1922 to be made a D. Litt. honoris causa. Intentionally or not the new Poet Laureate symbolizes the fact that Britain is now ruled by men with almost as little formal education as himself (Messrs. MacDonald and Snowden attended board school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Laureate Masefield | 5/19/1930 | See Source »

Lombard's famed alumni Include: Poet Carl Sandburg (1902), who holds a Litt. D. from both Lombard and Knox; Allen Francis Moore (1889), president of Moore Investment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Knox-Lombard Merger | 4/21/1930 | See Source »

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