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...several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for 90 minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after, matriculation. Alarmed, the practical Provost of Oriel demanded how the University, in that case, could make good the loss in examination fees. Most of the Congregation, however, agreed with Dr. Kenneth Escott Kirk that the present examination was "unworthy of the sanctity of the subject and of the University." They voted, 140 to 99, to abolish Divvers. --Time...
...subject of the debate: "Resolved, That, in the interests of world prosperity, the war debts should be cancelled," selected by G. W. Wickersham, former United States Attorney General, and now chairman of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission, will be opened by A. J. Irvine of Oriel College, Oxford, speaking for the affirmative. The negative side of the question, will be upheld by the next speaker, P. C. Reardon '32. To obviate the additional expense of shifting back and forth between speeches, and to accord with the split-argument nature of the debate, the next talker will be a Harvard...
...Cyrus Stephen Eaton a partner. Last week Charles Augustus Otis resigned from the firm bearing his name as did Partner Mervin Clark Harvey. Both will go to E. A. Pierce & Co., buyer of the brokerage business of Otis & Co. Other influential Otis & Co. partners who have resigned include Joseph Oriel Eaton (no relation to Cyrus), Richard Inglis, Ferdinand Eberstadt. Cyrus Eaton remained, comparatively alone...
George N. Clark, M.A., Fellow of Oriel College, is a representative, and is the editor of the "English Historical Review." The last two men are Henry R. Harrod, M.C., student of Christ Church and Kenneth Sisam, B.Litt., M.A., Merton College, as secretary...
...action was good.' " At 15, Newman became an undergraduate of Trinity College, Oxford, and disappointed everybody by breaking down in his examinations. He had overworked; for 20 weeks before the "schools" (finals) he had crammed an average of 20 hours a day. Later he became Fellow of Oriel, then one of Oxford's most coveted honors; was ordained deacon at 23, eventually became University Preacher...