Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band, not yet decided upon, instead of a local orchestra, to play for the formal dance on Monday, June 20. The final new wrinkle in the proceedings will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday, June 21, when the Class will sit together to watch there Harvard-Yale-Cambridge-Oxford track meet...
...could be that Historian Max Beloff of Oxford did not explain what could be done about the immaturity of higher education in the U.S. [TIME, March 28] . . . because he wasn't asked. If he were asked, he need merely to point with pride to the method and record of Oxford...
...student at Oxford, who has been carefully selected, is guided and advised, not compelled, by an assigned tutor. His degree is not awarded until he has proved his right to be recognized as having a college* education by taking comprehensive examinations which are largely non-factual in character. This measures the student's present proficiency and not his past success in cramming for numerous quizzes. Oxford has succeeded in encouraging both independence of mind and maturity of judgment...
Long years before the Labor Government came to power, London's County Council was the rock of Fabian Socialism in Britain. In the capital's tough, cockney-flavored municipal government, Oxford-accented Fabians had fought and won their first battles. Labor's political machine, reaching into all of London's slums, docks and factory districts, boosted to power such Socialists as Clement Attlee, Herbert Morrison, and Lewis Silkin. For 15 years, no matter who controlled the majorities in Parliament, the Labor Party controlled the London County Council...
Three members of the Class of 1949 are among the five United States recipients of Henry Fellowships, trustees of the Charles and Julia Henry Fund announced yesterday. The fellowships provide for a year's study at either Oxford or Cambridge University in England...