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Dates: during 1930-1939
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English lore has it that Billy Patterson was an ingenuous boatman who earned his shillings in the vicinity of Oxford University. It is said that for years a feud had existed between the students and the river boatmen. A group of excitement craving sophomores managed to capture Patterson and bring him to "trial" before a jury of their peers. He was found "guilty" and "sentenced" to have his head amputated via the guillotine...
...still hoped Hitler would work out his destiny through the League. A year ago she expressed the hopeful wish that some day there would not be armies, but just a world police force. But by last February she had to conclude that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike to do it, it may be necessary to use the forces of this world in the hope of keeping civilization going until spiritual forces gain sufficient strength everywhere to make an acceptance of disarmament...
...Oxford University Press...
AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH LETTERS-William Lyon Phelps-Oxford University Press...
Louis MacNeice, noted young English poet, will give a reading under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in Emerson D. A. contemporary of several of the younger English writers including W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, MacNeice graduated from Oxford and is now teaching at Bedford College in the University of London...