Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they haven't chosen Baby's name yet," sighed Lady Douglas-Home to a cluck of newshens. "They've tried everything. They've even been through the 'Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names and found nothing." Asked when the infant daughter of Diana Douglas-Home Wolfe-Murray would be christened, Granny Douglas-Home, chuckling at her own fun, replied: "I don't know-she can't be christened until they've got a name for her, can she?" At week's end the Big Problem at 10 Downing Street was resolved...
...liberal arts college, Robbins continued, "would give rise to more tensions and feelings of artificial inferiority than they would be worth." He noted that proponents of the liberal arts colleges had styled them "a little lower than the angels"-- England's more prestigious universities like Oxford and Cambridge...
Dennis Mack Smith, a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, will speak on "Sicily and the Mafia" at 6:15 p.m. tonight in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room...
...Lewis will give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard next year. Walter J. Bate '39, Abbot Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, said last night. Day Lewis is former professor of Poetry at Oxford University and one of Britain's noted contemporary poets...
...Lewis was born in Ireland in 1994 and attended Oxford. He taught there until 1935 and was an editor for the British Ministry of Information during World War II. From 1951 through 1965 by held his Oxford professorship, and he is currently a member of the Arts Council in Britain...