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...give the Phi Beta Kappa address. The Swarthmore commencement address would be delivered by Sir Francis James Wylie. who lately retired as resident host and welcomer to Rhodes Scholars at Oxford (TIME, March 7, 1932) and this year, with his white-haired, U. S.-born wife, has been visiting Rhodesmen old and new about the land (TIME, May 22). And. to tune in with the times, the Rhodesmen would hold a symposium on International Cures for Depression, chief speaker Newton D. Baker on "The Superstate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesmen at Swarthmore | 6/5/1933 | See Source »

...indigent. U. S.-born Lady Wylie (Kathleen Kelly) presided at tea-table, had each & every one to dinner once a year. At 66 Sir Francis is ruddy, a horseman and golfer, a "jolly good sort." Like women and elephants, he never forgets. At one Rhodes dinner he presented 250 Rhodesmen to Edward of Wales. He knew the name, college and home town of each & every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Wylie to Union | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

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