Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George B. Munroe 3L and Richard A. Wiley 1L will go to Oxford University next fall on Rhodes Scholarships, Harvey H. Bundy, regional committee chairman, announced Saturday night...
Wiley, a Springfield resident, graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin last June, where he was editor in chief of the Bowdoin Orient. He plans to study jurisprudence at Oxford...
...frail, redheaded Cornishman, known to most Britons simply as "Q." He wrote swashbuckling romances like Dead Man's Rock and The Astonishing History of Troy Town, so cock-a-hoop with adventure that he himself was "amazed ... at my own immoderation." He had been a dandy at Oxford, with a taste for bowler hats of different colors and loud checked suits ("What, another pair of trarsers!" Trinity's president would cry). He was also something of a radical who had denounced the Boer...
...goodbye. Then, "beaten to a rag with this term's work," Q would set out for Cornwall-to a plain house, "indeed, very much like a house a child draws on a slate." There he would write his essays, or work on the new edition of the famed Oxford Book of English Verse, or supervise regattas in the uniform of a yacht club commodore, or simply play the country squire...
Burton, a graduate of St. John's College in Oxford, is preparing for a career as an educator. During the war, he served as a commissioned officer with the British Royal Artillery. Captured in the fall of Singapore, he worked on the Siam-Burma railway and helped to run a camp library and book repair shop while a prissier of the Japanese. After his repatriation in 1945 he wrote a book about his war experiences entitled "In the Shadow...