Word: magdalene
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...Bernardin is a young clergyman of scholarly and social graces, educated at Yale and at the patrician Magdalen College, Oxford. The young headmaster of the cathedral's choir school, Rev. William Dudley Foulkes Hughes, an especial protege of Bishop Manning's, also is an Oxford man, but he attended the quite plebeian Hertford College there. Nevertheless, as bishop's friend, Mr. Hughes was able to irritate Dean's Assistant Bernardin. At last Mr. Bernardin could stand no more and resigned, preferring charges against Mr. Hughes...
...hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers of St. Mary the Virgin's, Magdalen, Merton, and the Cathedral are lost in the lower reaches of this fog-bank. The streets are shining with wet; the Old Schools Quadrangle is black and forbidding; the various College and University buildings look like the cubic masses of a modern stage-setting. The purlieus of St. Aldate...
...last week "flunked" responsions-college entrance examination at Oxford. The young Duke has never been to school, but has been "educated" privately by a tutor. It may have been argued that his aristocratic lineage entitled him to many privileges, but Oxford has long been noted for its democratic independence. Magdalen College refused to enter King Edward when he was Prince of Wales because Queen Victoria made stipulations that the head of that institution would not accept; and so the young Prince had to go to the "House" (Christ Church). And many a noble lord with erroneous ideas about...
Prince Chichibu made known in confidence that he will occupy next winter at Magdalen (pronounced Maudlin) College, Oxford, the very rooms once dwelt in by precocious undergraduate Oscar Wilde
...Britons capitulated even earlier to the vital, indiscreet Cleone when Lord Darling publicly declared: "Her diary must rank with ' that of Pepys' as a record of its time." Only an occasional reviewer dismissed the work as "that diverting hoax." Last week the "diarist" proclaimed herself. She is Magdalen King-Hall, 19, daughter of His Britannic Majesty's onetime Admiral Commanding on the Coast of Ireland (1906-08), Sir George Fowler King-Hall, K. C. B., retired...