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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...successful Puritans were Benjamin Barnes '41, Frederic Griffin '40, Eliot Richardson '41, and Joseph Stern '40. Robert Metzner, of 65 Oxford Street, also completed the competition satisfactorily and was admitted to the committee...
...lingua franca that would make broadcasts from Delhi understandable to all of India. Stuck with the job of making radio interest the ryot is India's Radio Chief Lionel Fielden. Dapper, dark-mustached, youthful Broadcaster Fielden came to Indian radio two years ago from Eton and Oxford by way of B.B.C. What the ryot likes is folk music, drama, dirty stories. What he gets from Etonian Fielden's programs is clean amusement and instruction. The instruction, however, has to be well disguised. Instead of lecturing the ryot on the use of fertilizer, Delhi broadcasts a farce in which...
Members of the Oxford Union of Oxford University, "home of lost causes," elected Eduard Benes to honorary membership...
Compactly put together, Oscar Wilde tells simply of its hero's downfall. It passes up Wilde's early days: his blue-china period at Oxford, his lily-and-sunflower posturings caricatured by Gilbert & Sullivan in Patience, his visit to the U.S. when he told the customs officers that he had nothing to declare but his genius. It introduces him at the height of his fame, spouting epigrams and penning paradoxes, when his intimacy with young Lord Alfred Douglas has aroused the furious opposition of Douglas' father, the Marquis of Queensberry. Soon Queensberry has goaded Wilde into suing...
...Manila Bay. He went to work as a straw-hatted, barefoot youngster delivering ice and baggage by mulecart to pay for his education. Perhaps the most, if not the best, educated member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made...