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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1742, a century later, had only 24 graduates. Its most famous member was Samuel Auchmuty, a noted colonial lawyer and judge, who later received honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford. Jumping another century, the Class of 1842 graduated 56 strong. This class lost several men in the Civil War. The best-known member was Stephen H. Phillips, who became foreign Minister of the old Kingdom of Hawaii...
...Walter R. Matthews, Dean of St. Paul's London; Sigfried Giedlon, Swiss art historian and a leading figure in modern architecture: Kai Linderstrom-Lang, professor at the Carlsberg Laboratorium, Copenhagen, one of the world's leading research workers in histochemistry; and Richard W. Southwell, professor of Engineering, Brasenose College, Oxford...
...Oxford Street...
Last week at an international Group houseparty in Interlaken, Switzerland gathered 2,000 Groupers from 40 nations. Though Oxford Group publicity (increasingly well-organized) featured such leaders as Foreign Minister J. A. N. Patijn of The Netherlands and Parliament President Carl J. Hambro of Norway-scheduled to speak at Interlaken-it w'as careful not to ignore the lowly-born. One delegate to the assembly was Labor Leader Todd Sloan, 62, onetime London dock hand, to Oxford Groupers a "radical agitator" now reformed. In clearest terms he stated Buchmanism's new, grown-up policy: "In the moral rearmament...
...With only the loosest connections with Oxford University, the Oxford Group is by no means to be with the Oxford Movement, a Church of England revival of a century...