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...winners will receive two-year post-baccalaureate scholarships to attend Oxford University in England next fall...
Bahat, a social studies concentrator and president of Phillips Brooks House Association, said he will be studying urban economics at Oxford...
...Failure to communicate with protest rally organizers: The protest rally organizers had an agreement with Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III that the rally could take place in the area between the Science Center, Harvard Yard and Oxford St. This area was subsequently closed down by Harvard. The change was announced to the rally organizers on the last day before the visit (Oct. 31). At that stage, the rally was fully prepared, flyers were printed and broadly distributed. Epps claims he learned about the shutdown on Thursday, Oct. 30 at a meeting around 11 a.m. According to his statement...
DIED. SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, 88, British historian-philosopher of awesome erudition; in Oxford, England. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, Berlin became one of Oxford University's most eminent thinkers. His essays still dazzle, whether ruminating on determinism in Historical Inevitability, updating Mill in Two Concepts of Liberty or exploring Tolstoy's conflicted nature in The Hedgehog and the Fox. (See eulogy, below...
Fortunately, Sir Isaiah in print was more comprehensible than in person. Although the Oxford philosopher was casual about his writings--he never attempted a major book--his lectures and scholarly papers, including Russian Thinkers and Against the Current, established Berlin's reputation as a formidably learned defender of liberal values. His most famous and influential essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), divided humankind into those who have one big idea and those who have many smaller ones. Berlin's hedgehogs included Plato and Dante; among the foxes he named Aristotle and Shakespeare. Although too modest to make such...