Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, having spent his student days at Balliol, and a period as tutor at Corpus Christi. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, and since 1918 he has been Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
Professor Garrod was very much interested in the Rhodes Scholars who attend Oxford, but remarked that Americans found the atmosphere of leisure there different from the hustle and bustle of college life in this country. He said...
...What surprises me is that Americans who come over to Oxford find it more expensive than their own universities. Living expenses here seem to me to be much higher than at Merton, or any other Oxford College...
...fact that the CRIMSON is issued daily was a surprise to him. Again he commented on the energy of the students, who would work enough to produce a newspaper every day. In Oxford publications are issued weekly at the most, and at great leisure...
...Norton Chair, established by C. C. Stillman '98, was first held in 1926-27 by Professor Gilbert Murray, Requis Professor of Greek at Oxford, world famous classicist and man of letters. He was followed in 1927-28 by Professor Eric R. D. Maclagan, Director and Secretary of the Victoria and Albert Museum of London. The chair was vacant during the past year...