Word: jowett
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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Professor Jowett, Master of Balliol College, and better known to the American public through his fascinating translations of Plato and Thucydides, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford. This fact gains interest as marking another step towards freedom of thought in the great centre of British conservatism. Counted by years it is not long since Mr. Jowett, having been excluded from the university pulpit, was threatened with prosecution for heresy, and denied his legitimate salary of professor of Greek. Now, without any change of opinion on his part, he has been appointed to the highest active office...
Professor Jowett is nominated to succeed Dr. Evans as vice chancellor of the University of Oxford...
Leslie Stephen will write the Life of Swift in the English "Men of Letters," Austin Dobson that of Fielding, Professor Colvin of Keats, and Professor Jowett of Jeremy Taylor...
...memorial against the recent persecutions of the Jews has been published by the University of Oxford. 245 resident graduates have signed, among them, Professors Jowett, Rawlinson, Stubbs, Nettleship, Muller, Sayce and Legge...