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...father of craps was the English game of hazard, which is of considerable antiquity. The Oxford English Dictionary cites a specific mention of hazard as early as 1300, and say: that according to William of Tyre, who died in 1190, the game was invented by English crusaders at the siege of an Arabian castle called Hazart, or Asart. Hazard is virtually obsolete now, but was extensively played in the U. S. as late as the early 1890s...
Nothing like their European models, Britain's 13 dictators were perfect examples of traditional British public servants. The majority have titles. Eight went to Oxford or Cambridge, one to Edinburgh, two into the Army and Navy. One is an educator (Will Spens, Master of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), one a big businessman (John Boot, Lord Trent, head of the great Boots drugstore chain), one a diplomat (Sir Auckland Geddes, Ambassador to Washington, 1920-24), one a labor specialist (Harold Butler, former Director of the International Labor Office, Geneva). Five have had long Government experience, six saw active War duty...
...must to all great men, a debunking came to Socrates this week. The debunker, University of Wisconsin's Professor Alban Dewes Winspear, is a tall, slim scholar, British-born, educated in Canada and at Oxford (as a Rhodes scholar). He has a pedagogic urge to prove that "being in the field of classics doesn't make one an old fogy." Who Was Socrates?* is calculated to make old fogies furious...
...Oxford Group of Dr. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, whose latest slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...
...Student Council has seen that it is good, this land of milk and honey which lies across the Jordan. The Councilors have looked beyond an ocean in the search for a more ideal athletic establishment, and their eyes have at long last lingered on the historic precincts of Oxford and Cambridge. The revolutionary plan which they consequently sketched and which appears in the current athletic report is nothing more nor less than an approximation to the system of athletic relationships which exist in the twin sultans of English learning...