Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday, Harvard met Oxford in a match held in honor of the Queen's Silver Jubilee at the Myopia Hunt Club in Hamilton. The match proved to be as charming as the idea itself. The Crimson horsemen scored a goal in the final 30 seconds to tie the game at eight goals apiece...
...captain Bobo Tanner struck upon the idea of inviting the Britons last winter and wrote Will Reeve of the Oxford squad. After several more exchanges of letters, the game was set, resulting in the appearance in Cambridge of Reeve and teammates John Bodgin and Hugh Crisp on September...
...Harvard and Oxford teams' attitude toward one another differs somewhat from the traditional intense rivalry between the football team and their Eli counterparts. The Harvard and Oxford players have spent most of their time together sampling some of the social and, theoretically, academic offerings of Cambridge...
...wanted, so long as it was a barrister or a solicitor." Tony's filial severance came when he finished reading law at Cambridge. The day after he was called to the bar he left England for the New World and a new career. More impressionable, David opted for Oxford and the life of a don. "My father longed to make of me a respectable guy," says Cornwell. "The attraction which institutions had for me was an extension of his own longing. In those years I was always looking for somebody who didn't exist. In fact...
...born Leopold Antony Stokowski in the Marylebone section of London in 1882, the son of a Polish cabinetmaker and a mother of Irish descent. They managed to scrape up enough money to send him to Oxford and to the Royal College of Music. He got a job as an organist in a London church, then moved to St. Bartholomew's in New York. In 1909 he became the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. He was young (27) and virtually untried, but magisterially handsome and already with the mark of genius upon him. Under the gaze of his stern blue...