Word: magdalene
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...included in all histories of English literature like "The Journal of the Plague Year"; the great majority sink into the limbe of forgotten things with all too great a readiness. And in apparent contradiction to physics, the fall thereof is never as great as the rise: Miss Magdalen King-Hall is probably now meditating on this strange phenomenon...
...dream of an Oxford or a Cambridge on the banks of the Charles River. If it wished to be thoroughly initiative it would have no transplant the roots of English tradition with their growth of centuries, an incomparably harder task than supplying new elms for the Harvard Yard. A Magdalen or a Magdalene cannot be improvised. If the English colleges were imported and grafted on an American university they surely would suffer extraordinary sea change...
...after the "House" ball, perchance a Magdalen ball, a "Quaggers" ball and many other balls, at which the most sumptuous refreshments are served in an atmosphere unostentatiously aristocratic, Oxford will run its eyes, yawn and fall fast asleep for the summer...
...property, one of the richest men in Russia, and could, it was said, travel from one end of European Russia to another and sleep each night on his own property. He was educated in England at Eton and Oxford, being a contemporary of the present Prince of Wales at Magdalen College...
...world." The three Oxford debaters who will speak in favor of this question are C. H. Scaife, who was vice-president of the Oxford Union last term; J. D. Woodruff, for a time a member of the British Diplomatic service; and G. A. Gardner, a student of Magdalen College, who in addition has had both dramatic and military experience. Although the Harvard team, which consists of Philip Walker 25, Charlton MacVeagh '24, and P. W. Williams '25, is not as seasoned as the Oxford group, all its members have had experience either in the Harvard Debating Union...