Word: oxford
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...against traditional privilege isn't over in Britain--not for me, not for Tony Blair and not for New Labor. This war permeates all aspects of British life. Laura Spence, who will be attending Harvard next year, became the latest class-warrior after protesting her rejection from Oxford, contending that students from state-sponsored schools are disadvantaged in the admissions process. New Labour took up her standard but was bitterly opposed by the Tory front benchers...
...Before making this "homecoming," as he calls it, in 1998, Sen studied and taught for an extended period at Delhi University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University and at Harvard, where he accepted a joint appointment in economics and philosophy in 1987 and became Lamont University Professor...
Modeled after the Oxford system, Harvard's residential College plan is intended to provide a community that is "primarily for the educational benefit of undergraduate," according to a 1994 report on the College's structure...
...building boom continued this year. A huge yellow crane towering over Widener Library greeted students returning in the fall. The Maxwell Dworkin building on Oxford Street, funded by donations from Microsoft leaders William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and Steven A. Ballmer '77, was dedicated as a computer science center in October...
...Taking his cues from Cambridge and Oxford, Lowell devised a "tutorial" system that would pair undergraduates with a scholar from their field of study. That tutor would live in the House and, for three years, instruct the young student in his discipline in preparation for oral exams at the end of the senior year. "The relation between the mature scholar and the student will be made less remote," he explained. The Houses would thereby be much more than the communities in which students at the College lived; they were to be the lynchpin of Harvard's academic program...