Word: oxford
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...within his dialectical logic of thesis-antithesis-synthesis, in 18 ponderous tomes. His idealistic principle that the material world exists only in relation to the Absolute mind led to the metaphysics of F. H. Bradley, who denied-even during the course of an hour's conversation in an Oxford chamber-that time or space had objective reality...
Each student will receive about $2500 annually to support him for either two or three years at Oxford University in their chosen field...
Among more general historians, Daniel Boorstin's second volume of a projected trilogy, The A mericans: the National Experience, defined the driving American character as it developed between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Samuel Eliot Morison's 1,150-page The Oxford History of .'he American People was impressive but quirky. Will a, d Ariel Durant's series on Western civilization continued to be a marvel of readable scholarship with the Age of Voltaire, and Kenneth Stampp's Era of Reconstruction put the blame back on the South's unreconstructed rebels instead...
Though he is the son of a Welsh miner who became an M.P., the elegant Jenkins by taste and temperament is far more at home in London's salons than the New Towns' public saloons. As early as Oxford, Jenkins found himself at odds with the woolly Marxism of the university's Labor Club, helped found the more moderate Democratic Socialist Club. While still in his 20s he wrote a biography of his friend and political mentor Clement Attlee, has since penned three historical works, including a bestseller on Liberal Prime Minister Herbert Asquith. His latest: Victorian...
...Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy, as "the most respected man in the class" ('40). He taught history at one of the nation's top private prep schools, Andover's Phillips Academy (he went to Taft himself). As a high school principal in Newton, Mass., Howe devised an Oxford-style house system that divided 3,000 students into six groups, each with separate faculty and advisers. His experiments in Newton led to his appointment as superintendent of the Scarsdale, N.Y., school system in 1960. Howe comes to HEW after a year as director of North Carolina's Learning...