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...Charleston (S. C.) is without a peer among city colleges. My own alma mater, the University of the South (the Oxford of America) at Sewanee, Tenn., with its 10,000-acre campus, the largest in the U. S.. yet one of the smallest colleges (30 men), with its Magdalen College Tower and other Gothic buildings, can be ranked with Yale's Harkness Tower. The younger Southern colleges such as Florida. Tennessee, Kentucky, are not behind others of their age in modern and adequate buildings, equipment...
Figure Skating- Two eleven-year-old British girls, Megan Taylor and Magdalen Colledge, amused the crowd. The U. S. champion, Maribel Vinson, and Belgian Mme Yvonne de Ligne, did well. But the best girl figure skater in the world was still 19-year-old Sonja Henje of Oslo, Norway. Behind her, on the stand, sat her immense, red-faced father, Wilhelm Henje. He said nothing. Mrs. Henje, however, told their daughter what part of the ice to use, instructed her to keep her beady toque straight on her head. Attached to her dress, Sonja Henje had a rabbit...
...school. Most students cram for a week, hope that luck will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for go minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy...
...school. Most students cram for a week, hope that lick will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for 90 minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy...
...note for his mother, who was in the country, which contained the remark, "Heat is frightful." Son of the late Justice Walter Lloyd-Smith of the New York Supreme Court, he was educated at The Hill School (1920), Princeton University (1924, Cap & Gown Club, active in theatricals) and Magdalen College. Oxford (one year). When called to TIME in 1928 he was on the staff of the Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker Press writing editorials and in charge of the Sunday magazine. Brilliant both as writer and analyst, he soon became TIME'S Business Editor. In 1929 he was selected...