Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Oxford: a 3¾-length victory over Cambridge in the 112th Annual Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race, on London's windswept Thames River. Forced to find a substitute boat after their No. 1 shell collided with a buoy and sank during practice, the Cambridge rowers battled the favored Dark Blues bow-to-bow for 3 mi. of the 4-mi., 374-yd. race. Then, at the last bend, Oxford Coxswain James Rogers steered straight across the Cambridge bow, forcing the Light Blues to check as Oxford pulled away...
...Chalmers has a vision. His ideal is the classic "well-rounded man," and he points to Oxford, his own alma mater, as an institution which has consistently succeeded in producing such graduates. Undergraduate specialization is even greater than at Harvard, and the colleges must play an important role in general education. Chalmers feels that the Harvard Houses should serve a similar function; to this end he has acted to increase intellectual ferment within Winthrop. One feels he would be entirely happy if Winthrop could resemble Balliol or Oriel in the days when Jowett and Whately walked the earth--sanctums where...
Another of the new ventures is the processing of experimental data while the experiment is still in progress. This is being tried on a high energy physics experiment at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator. Each of four CEA scientists has a small computer in his laboratory a little way up Oxford St., and these are tied in with the IBM 360/50 at the Center. The small machines gather data from the experiment, and pass it on to the larger computer where it is processed. The results are instantaneously fed back to the small machines to be displayed to the scientists...
Connolly dates the movement from about a hundred years ago when the word modernity first appeared in its current meaning. (It was coined, says Connolly, in 1858, although its first actual use is attributed by the Oxford English Dictionary to "Hakewilfs Apologie" in 1627.) He sees the Modern Movement as virtually over by the end of the '30s. Only now is it possible to see the scope and define the shape of a vast revolution in consciousness...
Harvard 'eams have been on top since the first intercollegiate court tennis tournament in 1956. So far, only Harvard, Princeton, and Yale have participated, but the University of Pennsylvania may be fielding a squad next year. Every two years, the top college players face off against teams from Oxford and Cambridge...