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Legal philosophy from New York. "A Talk by Ronald Dworkin," at the Harvard Law School. Ronald Dworkin, NYU Law School and Oxford University. Hauser Hall, Room 105, Harvard Law School. 4 p.m. FREE...
...that we disparage our brethren in New Haven, there is one area where I am convinced Yale has us beat: the strength of its residential college system. Both Harvard's Houses and Yale's colleges were inspired by the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, but Yale has surpassed Harvard in achieving the goal of vibrant social and educational communities within the larger university. You see it in the spirit of the Elis at The Game, where inter-college rivalry nearly surpasses their animosity towards Fair Harvard. Yale has a popular residential college seminar program in which undergraduates propose the courses...
Dame Iris Murdoch's like will not be seen again. A beautiful woman with a brilliant mind, a divine innocent, philosopher and Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford, winner of the 1978 Booker Prize for her novel The Sea, the Sea, living closely and in famous squalor with her husband, the eminent critic John Bayley, she was unmoved by the claims of publishers and fans upon her privacy and person. To the impudent question in a bookstore's Visitor's Book "What are you famous for?" she wrote, "For nothing. I am just famous." And she would have believed...
DIED. IRIS MURDOCH, 79, erudite and macabre British writer, philosopher and Booker Prize winner; after a battle with Alzheimer's disease; in Oxford, England. In her 26 novels, including A Severed Head and An Accidental Man, Murdoch described in intricate detail middle-class characters in the throes of what she called "erotic mysteries and deep, dark struggles between good and evil" (see Eulogy...
Founded in 1873 in Oxford, Mississippi, Delta Gamma is one of the oldest sororities in the country...