Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...journal Nature, the late British Geologist James Archibald Douglas offered his solution to the Piltdown hoax. The culprit, said Douglas in a tape recording made only a few months before his death last February at age 93, was his predecessor as professor of geology and paleontology at Oxford University, William Johnson Sollas. The motive: Sollas wanted to destroy the reputation of a hated rival by tricking him into publicly accepting as authentic what would later be unmasked as an elaborate joke...
Some CUE members suggested the University could develop a special exchange program for colleges and universities in English-speaking countries referring specifically to colleges in Oxford and Cambridge universities
...until Meyer won the three-mile race in an outdoor track meet against Yale in 1976 that he began to come into his own. With that victory, Meyer qualified for the Harvard-Yale combined team in the meet with Oxford and Cambridge, but he did not participate because of the first of a series of ankle sprains that kept him out of competition for almost all of his junior year...
Members of the Oxford Street Day Care Cooperative will decide tomorrow night whether to accept a new home the University has offered them...
...building Harvard is offering the center, at 48 Trowbridge St., formerly housed some offices of the Kennedy School of Government and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism. The day care center is now in Palfrey House at 46 Oxford...