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This week the De Young Museum put the Bellini Doge on display along with the Verrocchio boy and a picture of Christ and the Magdalen, painted in collaboration by Flemish Masters Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Bruegel the Elder, which Heil also bought cheap from a Canadian dealer last spring. The three works of art had cost the museum less than $10,000; the museum put their combined value...
...weekly magazine Isis. Then the London Daily Mail picked it up and splashed it into headlines. All in all, it struck proper Oxonians as one of the cheekiest essays in years. As might have been expected, the author was an American-a second-year Rhodes scholar at Magdalen named Eugene Burdick...
...conceded that, academically, Oxford was topnotch and that things like "Magdalen Deer Park on a medium cloudy day" were pretty fine. But as for everything else, mourned Burdick: "Youf writers have lifted the illusion so high, and war, proximity, and perhaps even the dollar shortage have forced reality...
Tame Deer. It was tame deer that in spired Kurt Hahn to be a teacher. A psychologist might have classified the deer browsing listlessly in the park at Oxford's Magdalen College, as well adjusted. But to Hahn, they seemed "contentedly unfit,' lacking ambition even to jump the fence. Were most schools producing tame deer...
...Canada's Magdalen Islands recently assumed a new importance when they were discovered to have valuable...