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Harvard's unique house system began under President A. Lawrence Lowell in the early 1930s. According to Lowell, the plan was patterned after the Oxford and Cambridge Colleges and designed "to unite learning with the fine art of living...
...Fulbright scholarship, Feldstein went on to study at Oxford University, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees and served as a research fellow and lecturer for several years...
Senior faculty members in the Psychology department said this weekend they were pleased that Hooley had accepted the offer, and praised the work of the Oxford-educated psychopathologist, who has been at Harvard since...
PRENATAL care, as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, derives from the old Latin prenatus...
...other fabled barbarisms that may have encouraged two of the school's alumni to fashion the most chilling dystopias of the century in Brave New World and 1984. Veteran teachers rhapsodize about a kind of Golden Age of liberality and modernity: of the 56 students taking the Oxford Entrance Examinations last month, 18 were specialists in natural sciences (as against five in classics). There is even a martial-arts room in the new Olympic-standard gym -- to toughen, no doubt, the fiber of future powers on and off the Wall...