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Brains & Tongues. The heads of colleges may not have meant to be highhanded, but that was what they seemed to a dabbling of dons. On the inspiration of Hugh Trevor-Roper, disputatious Regius Professor of modern history (The Last Days of Hitler), the dons found themselves with a candidate of their own-an old Balliol man who was then traveling in Africa. Off went a telegram to ask the traveler if he would accept. After an appropriate delay, and a sounding out of chances, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, said that he would...
...Oxford (Christ Church). As an assistant professor at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary, Dr. Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There he is known with considerable awe for searching lectures combined with openhanded hospitality, a briskly friendly American who keeps a visitor's glass filled and vacuum-cleans his brain at the same time...
...vastly if casually learned man himself (he lets on that he graduated from Oxford only by an "arrangement" with the regius professor of English literature), Graves suggests that even as a schoolboy he could not resist the temptation to make light of learning. He declined the name of Mr. Lees, the Latin master, as "Lees, Lees...
...Liberal (he served in Parliament for six years), he was a failure, for he loathed making either speeches or compromises ("If I could only get turned out of Parliament in an honest way and settle down among my books!"). It was not until 1895, when he was made regius professor of modern history at Cambridge University, that he found his proper niche. There he finally revealed his "essential ethical position...
What Canon Demant had said over the air he had already said to students at Oxford University, where last year he became Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology. Calling his treatise Religion and the Decline of Capitalism, anticapitalist, anti-socialist Demant set out to diagnose the basic troubles of the time...