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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could there be a more charming and delightful excursion into higher education? But the thing that really convinces us that there is something superior in the English system is the Latin grace which is inscribed in the common room of Wadham, and which celebrates the brown sherry for which that college is famous. It reads, "We thank Thee, O Lord, as for all Thy other mercies, so especially for this, Thy creature, brown sherry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Note on Education | 2/12/1929 | See Source »

...site of Rhodes House is a two acre portion of the grounds of Wadham College, which has been acquired from the College. The building will be directly north of Wadham and opposite the gardens of St. Johns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activities of Rhodes Scholarship Trust to Have Center on Wadham College Grounds -- Not for Undergraduate Use | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

...Chadwick, Davison Scholar from Wadham College, Oxford, finds life in metropolitan American Cambridge in sharp contrast to life in rural Oxford. "Harvard Square," he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is one of the strongest arguments for Prohibition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting English Scholar Finds Harvard Square Supports Logic of Eighteenth Amendment-Oxford Steals Police Caps | 10/10/1927 | See Source »

Among the most interesting awards is that of the Davison Scholarships, which bring six students annually from Oxford and Cambridge. Two of these study at Harvard, two at Yale, and two at Princeton. The two English students at Harvard this year are W. F. P. Chadwick, from Wadham College, Oxford; and K. R. H. Johnston, from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARDS TO BRING EUROPEANS HERE | 10/1/1927 | See Source »

Lord Birkenhead met his future wife in his undergraduate days. He never had any connection with " Corpus," having been a member of Wadham College, a fellow of Merton College, a lecturer of Oriel College...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: The Redoubtable F. E. | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

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