Word: wadham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that sort of thing"). The son of a small businessman, he made his way on scholarships through Eton ("I wasn't awfully happy there") and Oxford ("The people were much cleverer than one"). He stayed on at Oxford as a lecturer, then (at 34) Fellow and Dean of Wadham College. In 1947, he left for a professorship at London University...
...Firozkhan Noon, chief collector of British honors among the Moslems (K.C.S.L, K.C.I.E., Hon. LL.D., Toronto, Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford), mounted the platform. "From now on," he proclaimed, "I am Mister Noon." (Cracked one Hindu columnist: "Twilight would have been a better word than noon...
...Oxford group are A. H. Smith, warden of New College, Oxford; M. Platnauer, vice-president and fellow of Brasenose College: N. H. K. Coghill, fellow of Exeter College: T. H. Keeley, fellow of Wadham College: H. B. Moore, Brasenose, College secretary; and F. Gibberd, architect...