Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...allowance for bookcases in the U. S. Embassy, had promptly received statistics. Needing a private secretary, he had offered the diplomatic opportunity to rugged Nephew Henry Dawes. one year out of Williams College, oil company clerk in Columbus, Ohio. Nephew Dawes had promptly, diplomatically accepted. Promptest of all was Oxford University, which was to make Ambassador Dawes a Doctor of Civil Law almost immediately on his arrival. Simultaneously receiving the same degree would be Spanish Ambassador Alfonso Merry del Val, brother of the urbane and genial Cardinal, and Egyptian Prime Minister Mohamed Mahmud Pasha...
...such Oxford occasions memorable remarks often made. In 1864. at the beginning of the evolution controversy (see p. 40), the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli exclaimed: "The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels...
...born in a Scotch hut. One of his ministers was an engine cleaner and fireman, one worked in a cotton mill at the age of ten, another's father was a lace designer, one is the son of an Irish laborer. However, five have titles, four went to Oxford, two to Cambridge, three to the military schools of Sandhurst and Woolwich, and one (Author-Economist Sidney Webb) was educated in Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Super-educated is Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan, president of the Board of Education, schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, son of famed Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan, grandnephew...
...days ago W. J. Bingham '16 announced that Professor Kennedy of Princeton had accepted the invitation of the Harvard and Yale authorities to act as referee of the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-Cambridge track meet in the Stadium on July 13. Mr. Bingham and Professor Kennedy were the directors of Harvard and Princeton athletics respectively at the time of the break in athletic relations between the two universities three years...
...places which had been left disputed on the Harvard-Yale track team which will meet Oxford, and Cambridge at the Stadium on July 13 were settled in special trials on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Uihlein, Yale freshman shot putter, put the iron ball three-quarters of an inch farther than G. W. Kuehn '32 to win a berth on the team with a toss of 43 feet 11 1-8 inches. E. E. Record '32, Harvard freshman captain, sped over the 120-yard high hurdles in 16 seconds, ahead of F. J. Mardulier '30, earning his right to compete against...