Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford Courts announces the opening of their Coffee Shop to satisfy the clientele desiring less formal service under the management and direction of Harold R. Robinson '25, who also is managing the Oxford Court Grille. One of Harvard's own sons is here to act as host to his younger brothers and his Alma Mater at the refined Oxford Courts noted for its hospitality and cuisine...
Every convenience is here at your command and we stand ready to meet your inspection and patronage. We feel that nothing has been omitted in the appointments and dining facilities of Oxford Courts and logically it is a place for your regular luncheon and dinner appointments, after theatre tidbits, and social functions...
...display, however, are the manuscripts of "The Rectory umbrella", and the "Mischmasch". The former is a little book done by Lewis Carroll while at Eton, charmingly written and illustrated, and of double interest because most of it has never been published. The "Mischmasch" was written by Carroll while at Oxford, and contains the first verse of his poem the "jabberwocky" which was not published until 25 years later. There is a translation of the words in the first verse showing how they were formed. As this has never been published, and explains one of the author's most famous poems...
...students were graduated. It soon became difficult to cling to the ideal of a small college. Nevertheless Pomona firmly shut its doors yearly in the face of all but 750 students. But if there were two colleges? Later, perhaps, three? On the coast of the Pacific another Oxford, a group of autonomous colleges united by a common central organization...
...William Archibald Spooner, onetime warden of New College, Oxford, celebrated last fortnight his golden wedding anniversary. He has long been aware that he is the cause of the appearance of the word "spoonerism" in the Oxford English Dictionary. A spoonerism is the transposition of two sounds, or of the first letters of two words, in a simple sentence. In 1879, Dr. Spooner announced a hymn as "The Kinquering Congs Their Titles Take." Since then, he has been labeled the author of countless spoonerisms. But, on his golden wedding celebration, he stoutly maintained that "Kinquering Congs" was his one and only...