Word: oxfordized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eliot, England's American-born poet-in-residence, got a Doctorate of Literature from Oxford...
...traveled to Oxford, married Logan Pearsall Smith's sister, devoured-and rejected-the theories of Walter Pater. In Florence, he earned a bare living escorting tourists through the galleries until, in 1894, he published his Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, the first of four handy, brilliant guidebooks which netted him enough to buy a lavish 17th Century villa high above the Arno valley...
Swift held politicians in scorn, but served two of them-the Tory Lords Bolingbroke and Oxford-so as to sway a kingdom. He despaired of mankind, but his friendships with Addison, Arbuthnot, Pope and Gay were among the happiest of the age. Women disgusted him, but he loved one woman all his life. Exiled from England to the deanery of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, he conquered, with Gulliver (1726), the world he wished to shame. And though he detested Ireland, he wrote so fiercely in her defense (in The Drapier's Letters and A Modest Proposal...
...addition to Moderator Kenyon, Congregationalists also acquired a book last week. Titled A Book of Worship for Free Churches (Oxford, $1.50), it is designed to bring new order into the every-minister-for-himself system of worship that has hitherto been the practice in Congregational churches...
When wise and tolerant President William Allan Neilson kissed his "2,000 daughters" goodbye and retired after 22 years, Smith College searched hard for a successor (TIME, Oct. 30, 1939). British-born, Oxford-educated Herbert John Davis took the job with misgivings: "What can the man do that cometh after the king?" Like Neilson, Davis had been an English professor (his specialty: Jonathan Swift); Smith trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from...