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...President, Nelson drew the attention of the campus to important events as he saw them from what his Adams housemate and Oxford classmate Robert C. Darnton ’60 called his “observation post” as President of The Crimson...
...Americans” hailed from Louisiana, Haiti, Kentucky, encompassing crack Irish-American units, freed slaves, and wary Native Americans. Orders were translated into Spanish, French, and Choctaw. The diverse internationalism of such a scene must have particularly piqued the interest of Howe, Harvard graduate and Professor Emeritus of both Oxford and UCLA, who once dreamed of ancient overseas battles as a young boy growing up in Denver. “I got interested in history when I was about six years old and my father sat me on his lap and told me about Hannibal crossing the Alps with elephants...
...former editors like David Halberstam ’55 and Anthony Lewis ’48 who became Pulitzer Prize winning journalists. Former editors also inspired Nelson to apply for a Rhodes Scholarship. After receiving the scholarship, Nelson went on to attain an M. Phil in politics from Oxford. He began his career after graduate school as an instructor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Washington D.C. to report on Congressional and foreign affairs for the Washington Post...
...profession. “I became an art critic through a series of accidents and coincidences,” said Vaizey, now a celebrated art critic who has written for the British newspapers, the Financial Times and the Sunday Times. The Radcliffe alumna says her career started in an Oxford gallery, when its proprietor suggested that she write about the exhibit. “I always knew I would do something,” she said. “This just happened and it just snowballed from there.” Vaizey spent a few years working for smaller publications...
...What she has done is so much more trivial than her contribution to poetry," said the novelist Jeannette Winterson. "We ought to be able to look beyond the woman to the poetry. This is a way of reducing women; it wouldn't have happened to a man. But then Oxford is a sexist little dump...