Word: smewin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month, in an unprecedented move, the city council of Oxford decided to patch things up once and for all. For the 600th anniversary of the great brawl, they planned a special ceremony, invited officials of the university to attend. Only one alderman-Laborite E. A. Smewin-objected. "The relations between town and gown," said he, "seem friendly enough-but so do those between the German people and the armies in Berlin. Oxford is an occupied city...
Last week, with the exception of Smewin, the 14 aldermen of Oxford, donned their crimson robes: the 51 city councilors garbed themselves in blue; the vice chancellor of the university and his colleagues put on their gowns and hoods. Then, as the bells of St. Martin's and St. Mary's tolled, the berobed host marched to the university's Sheldonian Theater. There, Vice Chancellor Alic Halford Smith made Mayor W. R. Gowers (a Cambridge man) a doctor of civil law. "Salvete Oppidani!" cried the university's Public Orator. "Salvete Academid!" Welcome town, welcome gown...
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