Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives of our own day and slaves to its attendant delusions...
Writing primarily for Britons, the Economist does not have to explain why this process no longer works in their country. Had it needed to, the Economist could have turned to some figures released last week by the Oxford University Institute of Statistics. These show, that in the years 1938-47, the real income after taxes of the British middle class* dropped 9%, while that of the working class rose 7%. To hold its part of the middle-class vote, the Labor government checked this trend in 1948, but the Oxford report expects it to be resumed: "The movement toward equality...
...obvious to Historian Max Beloff, who teaches modern history at Oxford, that U.S. education was ahead on one count: more people, were getting to college than ever before. Could postwar Britain, which talked of doing the same, learn anything from U.S. experience...
...Graves has brusquely abandoned a world that is so out of step with him and has created a Utopia-a world named New Crete, where, after Christianity has been destroyed by world wars, man has at last recognized the Goddess. The hero of it all is a Rugby-and Oxford-educated poet by the name of Edward Venn-Thomas...
Davenport plans to finish the whole thing this term. Then the press will hold another field day, and the public will finally get into the grey, windowless building on Oxford Street. What they'll see will be the biggest machine in the University push the smallest thing in the Universe at the fastest speed made...