Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green's successor: Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, 53, who was born in Missouri, went to Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship, served for two years as president of the University of Arkansas, was elected to the House in 1942 and to the Senate in 1944, was one of the 96 signers of the Southern manifesto attacking the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregated schools. A longtime critic of Eisenhower Administration foreign policy, Bill Fulbright nonetheless wasted no time in getting in touch with State Secretary John Foster Dulles, promised his cooperation...
...heated intramural fight waged in the last few months over Churchill College was focused not so much on the influx of scientists-they have swarmed over Cambridge and Oxford since World War II-but much more on the wisdom of enlarging the university and of concentrating scientists in one residential college. Churchill College would add 600 scholars-70% of them scientists-to the 8,500-student university. A hit-or-miss poll of 500 Cantabrigians showed 52% against the addition. Literary Scholar Eustace Tillyard, master of Jesus College, called the plan "pernicious," added with scorn and resignation that...
With less fuss, Oxford went about its own plans for a $7,000,000 science college. The new institution will take the name of the present, nonresidential St. Catherine's Society, house some 400 scholars. Proposed opening date for St. Catherine's College: October...
...sold and became a hotel. As for last year's veiling ceremonies at Khartoum, the Sudanese for whom he had founded a school may have scamped the job. His horse's bronze legs stuck out from under the covering. Thus his true memorial is not an Oxford graduate's biography nor a Kipling's "lest we forget," but a last posting by dark-skinned men in British drill formation, who covered him up lest they remember...
...passing motorist, Frank Smith, of Oxford, made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the boys as a crowd of 3000 gathered. Metropolitan Police officers recovered one of the bodies, but the services of skin divers were required to bring up the other...