Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to Griffin, three other visiting professors will teach history courses next year. Henry T. Wade-Gery, professor at Oxford University, will offer a Fall half-courses on the Greek renaissance and archaic Greece...
Lady Jackson was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Felixtowe, England, later at the Lycee Moliere and the Sorbonne, Paris, and Sommerville College, Oxford. She received her degree in "PP and E" (Philosophy, Politics, and Economics). Her book titles reflect her interest; among her published works are The West at Bay (1948), Policy for the West (1951), Faith and Freedom (1954), and Interplay of East and West...
...American who has received some education in Europe is no better off for it at Harvard; on the contrary, any vestiges are considered affectations which should be shed as quickly as possible. This is particularly true of the younger tutors, returning from Oxford and Cambridge, whose educational advances are overshadowed in the minds of students by the atrocious mannerisms they have picked up. There is no general eagerness to share these different educational experiences, no strong curiosity concerning foreign ideas...
...present 80 per cent of the students at Oxford and Cambridge rely on financial aid from government grants, while the figure ten years ago was only 30 per cent, Laslett stated. In addition, he noted, universities are equally dependent on support from the government's University Grants Commission to the extent that "Cambridge is virtually a state institution...
...from the scientific point of view, they aren't doing much good." Another grumbled wearily that "these people go out and grab every _ beetle they can lay hands on and bring jars and jars of them back to us." Expeditioneers ignore such grousing. Said one jungle-happy scholar: "Oxford's a terrific base camp...