Word: oxfords
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Mason has, of course, had a long and illustrious career. In addition to performing for Queen Elizabeth II, being honored by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and receiving an honorary degree from Oxford University, he has taken his one-man show to Broadway five different times. He has received all the awards a comedian could possibly dream of--Tonys, Grammys, Emmys...
...male-dominated world, are still quite relevant. At the center of the play is a young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher, Miss Moffat (played by Dossy Peabody '74), in hopes of obtaining a scholarship to Oxford. In many ways, The Corn in Green can be looked at as a predecessor of the recent blockbuster Good Will Hunting. Yet, The Corn is Green, with its bittersweet ending and multi-faceted characters, is far more realistic and enjoyable than the fantastical Matt Damon film...
...Corn is Green is a play which Harvard students should see, since many parallels between Evans' burning desire to be admitted to Oxford and our own desires, perhaps long-forgotten, to attend Harvard, can be drawn. The play also makes a pertinent social comment on education and whom it is for--the rich and privileged, undoubtedly, while brilliant and poor students such as Evans must make do with their insecurities and emotional battles. With its supreme cast and relevant social questions, The Corn is Green is truly a production to be seen...
...correct to assume that a college residence should "link living and learning" and "emphasize strong faculty participation" in the lives of undergraduates. At Harvard, the House system was instituted in the 1930s for this purpose-to provide students with a decentralized, small-college atmosphere, modeled on the colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, within a large university. Students were supposed to feel a strong personal attachment to their House and to the community it provided...
Groat received his doctorate in linguistics from Harvard in 1997. A book of his, titled A Derivational Approach to Syntactic Relations, was published by Oxford University Press earlier this month...