Word: alice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Last week, without fanfare or controversy, Epstein was about to place one of his religious works in a church. The work: an ungainly but powerful white stone figure of Lazarus. The church: the 14th century Gothic chapel at New College, Oxford. The deal was closed when New College Warden Alic Halford Smith, in Epstein's studio to sit for a portrait bust, admired the Lazarus, decided to buy it on the spot. No financial details were disclosed, except that a "substantial" check was sent to the artist. Back at Oxford, New College officials were so pleased that they planned...
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