Word: oxfords
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...vehemently inveighed against his followers who left the Anglican fold. But before his death the U. S. Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet. But such peccadilloes were later more than expiated. When John and his brother Charles got religion they took it hard, in a day when...
Under the new system of selection, 33 Rhodes scholars have been appointed to represent their states at Oxford University, according to an announcement made yesterday by Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president of Swarthmore College, and American secretary to the Rhodes trustees...
Gibson took his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia in 1928, and will represent Virginia next fall at Oxford. Harley graduated last year from Lehigh University, and is now doing graduate work in English. Hayes was in the Class of 1930 at Yale, and Pettigrove graduated the same year from Bowdoin College. Among Holden's activities as an undergraduate are listed University polo and the position of Treasurer of the Dramatic Club. In his Freshman year he was on the debating and dramatic clubs; last year he was manager of the Cercle Francais and one of the nominees...
...number of dire pictorial representations of the future characteristics of Harvard, the individual houses, and the individual students. Some said that the plan was a gross pampering of romantic democracy. Others predicted houses separated by social rank and a tendency toward snobbishness, or perhaps a superficial imitation of Oxford and Cambridge with a super-imposed paternalism...
...Shoemaker, of the Cavalry Baptist Church of New York will speak on "The Oxford Group" on Sunday, December 14 at 4 o'clock at the Phillips Brooks House...