Word: oxonians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Conversion in Boston. Many Nigerian students, like their colonial counterparts in Asia and the rest of Africa, have long felt equatorially Oxonian about their education. The lucky student who passes entrance exams, happy in the knowledge that he can never again be called "boy," considers himself part of an anointed elite. On graduation, he feels that he can preserve his special status only by entering the civil service. Until lately, upon landing at Ibadan's lavish campus, the undergraduate has hardly had to lift a finger. Room servants tended his every need. When Ibadan recently put in a cafeteria...
...longer a whiz at Latin, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, heard a few words in that language at a solemn Oxford University ceremony at which he was awarded an honorary doctor of civil law degree, 'installed as Oxford's new chancellor. Old Oxonian Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan expressed his gratitude for the honor in hesitant Latin, seemed relieved to return to his native tongue, in which he allowed: "My Latin pronunciation is almost as obsolete as the language itself...