Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Student Union cabled liberal Oxford undergraduate organizations an armistice greeting yesterday as follows: "Students at Harvard, bound to you by common heritage, alarmed at unjust, dangerous Chamberlain foreign policy, urges British Youth make voice heard. On armistice day we send encouragement to democratic youth from across the ocean." (Signed) Harvard Student Union...
...Oxford last week came the first British by-election since Munich. Labor and Liberal candidates had withdrawn to better the chances of the anti-Chamberlain candidate, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, 59, famed Master of Balliol College. Widely respected as a "Fabian Socialist," The Master of Balliol offered himself this time as an "Independent Progressive...
...Hogg, 31, making his political debut. Son & heir of the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
Died. Lascelles Abercrombie, 57, British poet (Interludes and Poems, Emblems of Love) and Oxford don who in 1930 was proposed for the post of Poet Laureate; in London...
...debate, in the course of which Professor Schumpeter was variously described as "naive" and as possessing "Machiavellian insight", was conducted on the Oxford Union system, which involved a maximum of cross-examination and a the minimum of perorations. Spencer D. Pollard, instructor in Economics, presided...