Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Harvard seniors have won Rhodes Scholarships for two or three years of study at Oxford University...
Ponsor, an English major, will study medieval English literature at Oxford. He taugh English last year in Kenya with the PBH Volunteer Teachers for Africa Program. As a sophomore, he worked in a high school education project in Brighton and is a research assistant in the English Department...
...three intend to go to law school after two years at Oxford...
Today Evtushenko is the focus of a controversy set off by the most inconsequential of events: his nomination last month for the Chair of Poetry at Oxford. Long-smoldering antagonisms to Evtushenko flamed into print during the balloting, and it was no matter that he finished third behind the winner, an English solicitor and minor poet, Roy Fuller. The attacks on him continued...
...Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko to act like a genuine member of the dissenting intelligentsia in Russia. "He has always been a part of the political establishment, and as such was able to do a lot of good in his time," she says. Oxford's Russian specialist, Max Hay ward, is also dismayed by the severity of the attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia...