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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cooperating with Mr. Cross in France will be Paul Morand, one of those literary public servants upon whom public life in Europe so often devolves. Morand's academic background is his link with professorial "Soldier Premier" Daladier; he attended Oxford University and the Paris School of Political Science. He has served in France's London, Rome and Madrid embassies but never dabbled in the world trade which he will now help govern...
Alastair Francis Buchan, 21, and John Buchcm, 27, Oxford-bred sons of Canada's Governor-General Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan); respectively as a Princess Louise's Dragoon Guard, a Governor-General's Footguard...
...Rhodes scholars prepared to board ship for England and Oxford, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, U. S. secretary for the scholarships, suddenly notified them to cancel their reservations, announced that the Rhodes trustees had suspended the scholarships for the war's duration. The 64 Rhodesmen al ready at Oxford on the 1937 and 1938 scholarships were sent home. Dr. Ayde lotte said he would try to get his Rhodes-men scholarships or teaching jobs in the U. S., that at war's end their Rhodes scholarships would still be good...
...England, sober dons beetled back early to Oxford and Cambridge, which announced they would open as usual for the Michaelmas term next month. Both universities expect subnormal enrollments. Cambridge began to remove the 16th Century glass from its King's College chapel. Oxford gave up some of its buildings for hospitals...
...carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur. The U. S. and Canada together have some 50 carillons, most of them scattered through cities of the East. Nearly all of them are played by old Jef Denyn pupils...