Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England studying philosophy at Oxford...
...dean of the school. Joshua M. Morse, arranged for eight Yale professors to spend two weeks each in Oxford this semester. The second semester of the course on federalism will be taught by Harvard professors, each spending about six days in Mississippi...
Baker also captained the freshman track team and was unbeaten at two miles. He came on strong at the end of the spring to capture a berth as a miler on the Harvard-Yale team. Against Oxford-Cambridge last June 22, Baker surprised everybody by running a 4:12 mile, finishing second to Oxford's Martin Henderson...
From the time she first set up shop as a novelist eleven years ago, Irish-born Iris Murdoch was accorded a respectful acclaim. Because she was then a philosophy don at Oxford, nobody seemed overly concerned about whether her fiction writing was good or bad; as with Dr. Johnson's famous walking dog, there was only a happy wonderment that she did it at all. Because her prose was lucid, and sometimes even poetic, it was assumed that she deliberately kept her meanings opaque, and she was credited with a sense of mysticism. Because her characters usually were unbelievably...
...Welch, who had earlier retired as Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired major general with degrees from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar studying modern languages) and from West Point and M.I.T. (both in engineering) who is now an M.I.T. vice president and an overseer of its two largest Government-research laboratories...