Word: magdalenes
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Several authorities from the political and academic worlds have been invited. Among them are: Leonard Doob. professor of Psychology at Yale; Stuart Chase; I. A. Richards, head of Magdalen College at Oxford; Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Lynd, authors of "Middletown in Transition"; Alan Dudley, representative of the British Broadcasting System in New York; Professor Hans Kohn from Smith and Frederick L. Schuman from Williams...
Coming to Harvard are Richard N. Jones, of the University of Manchester, Patrick H. Nowell-Smith, of New College, Oxford, David C. Russell, of University College, David C. Russell, of University College, London, and Richard University College, London, and Richard S. Smith, of Magdalen College, Oxford...
Sticking close to the Best People, Cosmo Lang became Dean of Divinity at Magdalen, Oxford, and four years later, on the recommendation of Arthur Balfour, vicar of the largest parish in England, St. Mary's, Portsea. This parish had a vast industrial population and employed 15 curates, but right across Spithead (scene of this week's Coronation Naval Review), was the Isle of Wight, and on the Isle of Wight sat aging Queen Victoria. Cosmo Lang was soon Queen Victoria's favorite preacher at Osborne, and his career was assured...
...King Beech at Long Lythe, Selborne, Hampshire, so called because it is the first in that lovely countryside to leaf each spring, must be cared for by the foresters of Magdalen College, Oxford. On that traditional understanding Magdalen holds manorial rights to many a Long Lythe acre...
...physical aspect of Oxford that impresses one first. Architecturally, Oxford is a mediaeval jewel; and there are enough dreamy Towers to support a colony of vagabonds. As for unspoiled country and sweet traditions: only yesterday I teased the bulls in Christ Church meadow and later fed the deer in Magdalen grove. At Wadham, where I am put, all animal life seems confined to the rooms, but of this I shall write later...