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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics for the Empire." Reason for Cavendish's supremacy may be simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford are the only two British universities with whopping endowments to provide the equipment necessary to attract distinguished researchers from outside. Although Oxford is getting a fine new post-graduate medical school and already has a world-famed low-temperature laboratory, it has otherwise been content to leave Cambridge a clear...
...Mathewson, of Oxford University, as Instructor in Greek and Latin and Tutor...
Based on a combination of the Harvard and Oxford Union debating systems, the competition will allow for house teams composed of three members, giving two constructive and a rebuttal speech at each debate. Decisions, the House Chairman agreed, should rest with three judges, preferably members of the faculty...
Each house debate will be followed by an open forum conducted on the lines of the Oxford Union. This means that the assembled audience will take part in a discussion of the merits of the resolution, adding their own contributions of facts...
Other visitors will be Kurt Lewin, professor of Child Psychology, University of Iowa; Roger A. B. Mynors, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, in Latin Literature; Friedrich Sell, of Marburg-ander-Lahn, Germany, in German Literature; George de Santillana, of the New School for Social Research, New York City, in History of Science; and William H. Jellema, associate professor of Philosophy, Indiana University...