Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...return compliment for the role Sir Charles had played in the bestowing of an honorary doctorate on Sholokhov at Scotland's Saint Andrews University in April 1962, the first Russian writer to be so honored in a British university since Turgenev's honorary doctorate at Oxford in 1879. I was born and grew up in Rostov. That coat of felt and goat's wool is surely familiar to me, even though it does not at all belong in any groves of academe...
...Nobelman Charles Townes came close to being a linguist, Nobelwoman Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, 54, of Oxford, third woman ever to win the chemistry award,* came even closer to being an archaeologist. Born in Cairo while her father was Director of Education for the Sudan, she spent her early school holidays in digs in the Near East. But soon after she entered Oxford's Somerville College in 1928, she got caught up in the exciting mysteries of chemistry. By her second year, she was already concentrating on the intricacies of X-ray analysis of large, complicated molecules-the work that...
...amalgam of scholarship and domesticity. Her family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...
Ward 6, precinct 3 (The Yard, Claverly, and all Houses except Dunster): New Fire House, Broadway and Quincy St. Ward 6, precinct 4 (Dunster House): Corporal Burns Playground, Banks St. Ward 7, precincts 1 and 2 (graduate dorms): Agassiz School, Oxford and Sacramento Streets. Ward 7, precincts 4 and 5 (Radcliffe Quad and most off-campus houses): Peabody School, Linnaean and Avon Streets. Ward 8, precinct 5 (Coggeshall): Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, Mass. Ave. Polls will be open from...
Trottenberg said in an interview that the area between Lawrence Hall and Oxford St. was considered the logical site for the center, since it is near several laboratories and other science buildings. The only building on the proposed site is a frame house occupied by the Graduate School of Education, and, when the School's new headquarters on Appian Way are completed, the house will no longer be needed, Trottenberg noted...