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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plans to build his team around Bud Ager and Ted Bullard, the only holdovers from last year's singles players. Number one man Ager, who performed well in number five last season, picked up plenty of experience when he played in the Prentice Cup matches last summer against an Oxford-Cambridge squad...
...natty green bush jacket and gabardine trousers. "Adibasis I" he addressed them. "The most ancient aristocracy of India, the original settlers of this country, the most democratic element in the land are everywhere shouting Jai Jarkhand [Victory to Jungle land]." As the crowd heard their fellow tribesman, Oxford-educated Jaipal Singh, 46, mention Jarkhand, the province they wanted carved out for themselves in east central India, they roared in approval, "Jarkhand sadari [Separate Jarkhand]." A tribeswoman who works as a steel-mill laborer cried: "They are the people of the plains, and we are kings of the jungle...
...them is 48-year-old Provost Albert C. Jacobs, onetime Oxford lecturer in jurisprudence, wartime naval reserve captain and professor of law at Columbia. Professor Jacobs, provost since 1947, will be Ike's "principal assistant," act as his "alter ego and successor during the president's necessary absences from the university or in the event of an emergency." The other deputies...
...people, including students, ordinary citizens and new Americans work in the project, either full or part-time. When a group of professors' wives started the Window Shop in 1939, the first displaced persons were already entering the country. The non-profit enterprise opened in a room above the Oxford Grille on Church Street; there the early victims of the war could work and draw a small salary...
Tonight's symposium will deal in particular with the question, "Is the Novel Dying?" Harry T. Levine '33, professor of English, will lead off the discussion with a general survey of the subject, and divide the topic into three geographical areas. C. M. Bowra, Wardon of Wadham College, Oxford, will speak on the English novel...