Word: oxford
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After Eton, where his headmaster described him as the most unambitious boy he had ever encountered, Home went to Oxford's aristocratic Christ Church,* where he scraped by with a third in history. He was interested in the family's "political blood"-Britain's great reforming Prime Minister Earl Grey was his paternal great-grandfather -and was elected to Parliament in 1931 from the depressed mining district of South Lanark. "It seemed rather stodgy just to stay at home and live on your money and look after your estates," he explains. "It would have been...
...Around Christ. Most churchmen are duly skeptical about equating an afternoon on LSD with the intuitions of a St. John of the Cross or a Martin Luther. R. C. Zaehner of Oxford, a Roman Catholic and an expert on Eastern religions, holds that the drug-induced visions are simply one of many kinds of preternatural experience, and are qualitatively different from the ecstasies granted mystics. Presbyterian Theodore Gill, president of San Francisco Theological Seminary, wonders whether the drug experience might be a rival rather than a supplement to what conventional religion offers. Says he: "The drugs make...
...years older" than 60-year-old Ralph, came to America in time to fight in World War I. Ralph arrived in 1920, at the age of 17, and found his first job in a Liggetts drug store. The brothers opened a small grocery store in 1922 on Oxford St. in Cambridge, but after six years made a fateful move. All of their four succeeding stores were on Mount Auburn St. Old graduates can recall endless Cahaly wanderings, and rumors that they were once going to buy the yellow house now used for the Radcliffe Institute, once the house now Master...
University sources have hinted that if the Senate's version is adopted. Harvard might apply for funds to build an Undergraduate Science Center on Oxford Street. The College is, of course, not planning to expand its enrollment, and it would not be eligible for funds under the House bill...
Burns's answer was to make the place bigger yet smaller-large enough to compete with the well-equipped state schools, but not so monolithic. He changed the name from college to university. Then-after visiting Oxford and Cambridge ("draftiest damn week of my life") for guidance-Burns set out to expand the university through "cluster" colleges: small, autonomous schools with ivied walls, beamed ceilings, great halls and high tables, the whole Oxbridge bit. The first to be opened was Raymond College, a $3,000,000 complex of seven buildings with more than 4,800 crop-rich acres...