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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cocil M. Bowra, warden of Wadham College and professor of Poetry at Oxford University, will lecture on "Prometheus Unbound" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall. This is one of a series of talks on "The Romantic Imagination" being given by Professor Bowra...
Back to Britain, where she has become "a visitor most dear to British hearts," went Eleanor Roosevelt to receive from Oxford an honorary degree of Doctor of Civil Law.* Introduced by the Public Orator as "a pillar of world affairs," Mrs. Roosevelt herself made a memorable target for photographers as she walked with Vice Chancellor Dr. John Lowe in the academic procession, properly garbed in the traditional squash hat and flowing academic gown...
...about her ten months in Britain, where she revived her 20-year-old Diamond Lil: "I was quite a social success, as well as with my show. I met the King and Queen. I guess I met everybody there was to meet. I even had a lot of the Oxford boys after me." The boys were "quite exciting" and "I had twelve proposals." Mae concluded that her own attractions are universally appreciated: "I have the masses, I have the classes, I have all types of people...
...Oxford gave Franklin Roosevelt the same honorary degree...
Last week, on the desolate, shell-pocked plateau outside Caen, scholars from Harvard, Yale and Smith, from Oxford, Liege, and Lausanne, and ambassadors from Belgium, Canada, and Sweden, gathered near a grandstand bedecked with flags. There France's Minister of National Education Yvon Delbos and Minister of Reconstruction Claudius Petit laid the cornerstone of the new university. Later, at a convocation in Caen's movie theater, the only large auditorium left in the city, an honorary degree was awarded to a university president who wasn't there: Columbia's Dwight D. Eisenhower, whose invasion plans...