Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, at a Roman Catholic Church in London's Chelsea, Anglican Henry Pears Fisher, 30, a barrister and fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, married Roman Catholic Felicity Sutton, 26, an artist. They were married by Fr. Alphonso de Zulueta, "subject to the usual conditions of the Catholic Church," that is to say: 1) no other religious wedding ceremony could be performed; 2) any children of the marriage were to be brought up as Roman Catholics. The groom's mother and five brothers were present, but his father was unable to attend. He is Geoffrey Francis Fisher...
Eton Made Me. Connolly concludes his book with a chunk of autobiography that illustrates parts of his thesis. Like Shelleyblake, he too had shown high promise. From his prep school he won a scholarship to Eton; from Eton he won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He drugged himself with the heady compliments of classics masters, and made a bible of the Romantic tradition. Now, he feels, it was hardly surprising that his boyish successes served only to underscore his inability to continue them. "I was to continue . . . being promising indefinitely . . . Promise is the capacity for letting people down...
...almost all of them she has been something of a pioneer. Miss Cam was born 63 years ago in Essex County, England. "I think the most unusual thing about my childhood was that I had no formal schooling. I was one of nine children. My mother came from an Oxford background, and my father was a parson, and together they educated us all. I tried three times to get into Oxford by passing the 'locals' but couldn't. They did, however, show I had a proficiency for history so when I went to the University of London that became...
Three Seniors and a third Law student will study at Oxford University next year on Rhodes Scholarships, Dean Bender announced yesterday. Awards to two Law School men were made public earlier this week...
William J. Barber '46 of Abilene, Kansas, and Kirkland House; Mortimer H. Chambers, Jr. '49 of Grosse Point, Michigan, and Leverett House; Walter S. Frank '49 of Mt. Rainier, Maryland, and Eliot House; and Nelson F. Taylor 3L of Oxford, North Carolina, and 15 Everett st., are the recipients of the scholarships...