Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30? an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...
...student in economics, he had communicated with the Rhodes Trustees and Hertford College (where he plans to study law), discovered that he could postpone his entrance until January, could be a Pirate first, and go to Oxford afterward with a $15,000 bank roll...
Last month the trustees thought they had found their man: Rev. John Crocker, 38, studious, absentminded, enthusiastic high Churchman, Episcopal Chaplain of Princeton University, a graduate of Groton. Harvard (where he played end on the football team), Oxford. Grotties speak of "Jack" Crocker as logical successor to Groton's 80-year-old Headmaster Endicott Peabody; and he himself has declined nomination for the bishoprics of New Jersey and Vermont. Last week, after long pondering St. Paul's School's offer, he returned a nolo docere, turned down...
...governors last week chose another Scot, Frederick Wolff Ogilvie, to succeed Scot Reith. Dark-horse candidate for the $37,500 job, Professor Ogilvie is a celebrated economist. The board wanted a thoroughgoing educator, and the new 45-year-old D. G. fills the bill perfectly. He taught at Oxford and Edinburgh before becoming president and vice-chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast...
Conversions In the Papuan jungles of New Guinea, Geoffrey Baskett from the Kwata Mission reported that he had converted 300 head hunters to the Oxford Movement...