Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Bridges was born on the Isle of Thanet, was educated at Eton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Until he was 38 he practiced medicine. Then he began publishing poetry, much of it experimenting in Classical metre.* In 1913, aged 69, he was appointed Poet Laureate by Premier Asquith, succeeding Laureate Alfred Austin. Laureate Bridges is a founder of the Society for Pure English, serves as arbiter of pronunciation in British radio broadcasting...
Tall, white-bearded, leonine, he walks scholarly, reflective paths at his home on Boar's Hill, near Oxford. Careless of the social niceties, when his tea is too hot he pours it into the saucer to cool it. Careful of pennies, he will stamp out of a tobacconist's shop in high dudgeon if he thinks the pipe-tobacco a halfpenny dearer than it should be. His life has been unexciting. He pays little attention to young critics who dismiss his poetry with the same adjective...
...architectural details of Dunster House have been struck by the fact that the proposed tower is hardly in harmony with the main portion of the building. It is too reminiscent of the Gothic to have such a close relationship with a building of Georgian type. Those tower in Oxford which is placed on a building of pure Gothic, designed by Sir Christopher Wren, cannot fail to realize the close relationship between the two. The general impression conveyed by the tower is that of some exotic ornament, grafted onto a simple New England colonial base. The success which the same architects...
Professor J. L. Coolidge '95, named head of Lowell House, was born in Brookline in September, 1873. He was graduated from Harvard; then studied at Oxford University for two years, and received a degree from the University of Bonn in Prussia...
...Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Sir Robert Vansittart, secretary to Prime Minister MacDonald and favorite of the counters-out, was appointed Head of the Foreign Office as Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Professor Gilbert Murray, violent League of Nations partisan, went on teaching Greek at Oxford. The new Ambassador-designate, who will go to Washington early next year, is Sir Ronald Lindsay. 52, brawny six-foot Scot, onetime Ambassador to Germany and to Turkey. No stranger to the U. S. is Ambassador Ronald. A career diplomat, holder until last week of the post to which...