Word: oxonians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...director. His leadership was truly gratifying and he commanded real support from the other members of the cast. Miss Hilz was well received as Lady Clarissa and in the end heard good news and wedding chimes from Bernard Nedell, who as Viscount Deeford, is suddenly elevated from a satisfied. Oxonian of 25 years to a saviour of the nation under the tutelage of the great premier...
...Harvard College and a dignified participation in political affairs, even in a strictly partisan way." Evidently, from this, some liberalist, best-man sentiment was in the air to call out an otherwise pointless apology. Of these two ancient rivals, the Republican Club was the longer lived, and as an Oxonian remarked, "It outdid any society for diffusion of knowledge-or ignorance!" It sent out 30,000 speeches, and held torch light processions of some brilliancy...
...Oxonian tribute to the late Sir William Osier...
...whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans and is now being run in the true American-Oxonian style...
...Oxonian who is asked to write about Oxford for the benefit of possible candidates for the Rhodes Scholarships is bewildered by the multitude of things that might be said. First of all one might mention two first rate sources of information: (1) a little book by Scholz and Hornbeck called "Oxford and the Rhodes Scholarships", and (2) "The Oxford University Handbook." The latter is authoritative though unofficial--the official University Calendar, or "catalogue" as we should say, is fearfully and wonderfully made, and not to be recommended to the beginner. I see that the latest edition of the Handbook...