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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane who became Britain's Lord Chancellor, John B. S. Haldane was born 46 years ago in Scotland. Growing up in an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and freedom, he did not find Einstein unintelligible or Freud shocking. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, served in France and Mesopotamia during the War, was twice wounded, became a captain. He said he enjoyed shooting Germans. Nowadays he is known as an authority on poison gas, is an Air Raid Precautions expert...
Immediate reason for the proposed incorporation was that the Oxford Group had been named as such in the will of a female doctor who wished to bequeath it ?500. The matter went into court in London, where Mr. Justice Sir Charles Bennett was informed in an affidavit that the Group "consists of a wholly indefinite and unascertainable number of persons who possess no organization and no secretary or treasurer or officer of any kind . . '. and who are endeavoring to lead a spiritual quality of life under the guidance of the Holy Spirit...
...rather strange arrangement," commented Mr. Justice Bennett. Asked if he would like to read a book called What Is the Oxford Group?, he snapped, "I won't, unless it is necessary," and adjourned the case, pending further evidence...
...four buildings of the Graduate School of Engineering opposite the University Museum on Oxford street, will be open to visitors and faculty members. Student guides will be on hand at all the points of interest to explain the exhibits...
...Bruening, former Chancellor of the German Republic (1930-35), has been for the past two academic years lecturer on Government during the first half of the year, and lecturer at Oxford University, England during the second half. While at Harvard he conducted a seminar on "Government Regulation of Industry; Some Post-War Experiments in European Industrial Control...