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...Rhodes scholar at Oxford in 1986, Wolf had planned to write about the theme of beauty in literature. The Beauty Myth began taking shape when she heard someone remark that she had won the scholarship because of her looks. Says Wolf: "I had an image of the documents I had presented to the committee -- my essay, a book of poems I had written, letters of recommendation -- and the whole of it being swept away by that one sentence." Once she learned that other female Rhodes scholars had had similar tales told about them, she developed a new theme: that discussions...
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While McElroy is a popular department chair and teacher, he is considered by some to be an unlikely choice because he was raised and educated in Ireland. Similarly, Knowles was born in England and attended Oxford University. He also reportedly turned down the FAS deanship...
...Oxford University faculty member is coaching the Harvard University Choir group as it prepares to sing the American debut of French composer Mondonville's De Profondis...
Edward Higginbottom, a music director and faculty member of New College at Oxford, has come to Harvard for a week to guide the singers through the mid-eighteenth century piece...