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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another patient was Richard Hillary, who wrote his highly acclaimed reminiscences of Oxford and the war, Falling Through Space and The Last Enemy, in the hospital, left to rejoin the R.A.F. and was shot down in action six weeks later. His heroics inspired Arthur Koestler's essay, The Birth of a Myth...
Never before, as far as the oldest Old Oxonian could recall, had the University Congregation been convened during the "Long Vac." But last week, with almost a month of vacation still ahead, the Hebdomadal Council (Oxford's "cabinet") summoned a special session of Congregation (the academic legislature). To the black-gowned, curious dons, Dean John Lowe of Christ Church broke an exciting piece of news...
...anonymous Frenchman had offered Oxford ?1,500,000 ($6,000,000)-biggest gift ever received from a foreigner, and second largest in modern times.* There were a few strings attached. Most of the money was to be used to start a new college. Its name: St. Anthony's. Its general purpose: training young men "of strong will and character as leaders of the future." One-third of the college's undergraduates must be French. A final condition explained the council's unacademic haste: the offer was a take-it-or-leave-it; the donor was about...
...took the dons less than one hour to accept the offer, but it would be months before Oxford's senior common rooms tired of the great guessing game the gift had started. From Paris last week came one guess about Monsieur X's identity: Leon Fabre, 62, multi-millionaire head of the Fabre shipping lines, and a postwar resident...
Protestant fundamentalists are more conservative than the Catholics in their Biblical criticism. On Oct. 7, 38 fundamentalist editors will publish the Pilgrim Edition (Oxford University Press; $4.50). They use the King James translation and make flatly fundamentalist comments. Sample: "We can agree . . . with the suggested date of approximately 4000 B.C. for the creation...