Word: balliol
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...Krishnamurti into Oxford. Applying first to the Warden of New College (the late famed Canon William Archibald Spooner), she described her charge as an incarnation of God. The Warden blenched, categorically refused to admit such a Presence, which might prove embarrassing to the other undergraduates. The Master of Balliol shook his head regretfully, said they had had a great many famous people at Balliol but would have to draw the line somewhere. The president of Magdalen shook hands warmly, said he would be delighted, assured Mrs. Besant her ward would be able to mingle with the other undergraduates on terms...
Lowell House, as is obvious to anyone who has been observant, is the seat of a small but active cult bent on a crusade toward Balliol. The question is not on the merits of the English college. But a house individualism established through an uncritical limitation, and not through a sober development of its own faculties, is not an individualism that breeds men who think for themselves. The student members have proved themselves very lamb-like in accepting certain superficial actions, not bad though occasionally childish. The zealous minority is coaxing an effortless majority...
...Term used at Balliol, signifying "in the dining room...
Among those who will be absent for the entire academic year are as follows: John Livingston Lowes, professor of English, who will go to England for a year as the first holder of the George Eastman Visiting Fellowship at Balliol College; Oliver M. W. Sprague '94, Edmund Cogswell Convers Professor of Banking and Finance, who will serve the Bank of England as one of the staff; and Alexander von Stael-Holstein, professor of Central Asian Philology, who will continue his present leave of absence...
Professor Garrod is at present a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, having been a member of Balliol as a student, and of Corpus Christi as a tutor. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he has also been Commander, since 1918, of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. In 1912 he edited the Oxford. Book of Latin Verse, and has written books of criticism on Keats, Collins and Wordsworth. He was at one time editor of the Journal of Philology...