Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for go 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...
...many try it 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...
...Author. Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton (TIME, June 29), famed Old & New Testament scholar (author of The Apocryphal New Testament, Lost Apocrypha of the Old Testament, Old Testament Legends) says his ghost stories are based on neither his own nor others' experience. They were suggested mostly by reading, by places; once by a dream. If you were to ask him whether he believes in ghosts he would answer: "I am prepared to consider evidence and accept it if it satisfies me." He thinks he will probably write no more ghost sto ries. These he made up mostly...
...Alington said: "Pickford? Fairbanks? Who are they?" Dr. Alington says that by his bedside is a volume of the mystery stories of Valentine Williams, a writer much admired in Britain. Also he reads, as most knowing Britishers do, the ghost stories of his colleague Montague Rhodes ("Monty") James, Provost of Eton. The administrative and business affairs of Eton are in the hands of Ghost Story Writer James, who is furthermore a world-famed authority on early British stained glass and ancient manuscripts. Eton is the most individual and matured of British schools. But even here is that insuperable tradition which...
...Marc Parrott, 63, professor of English at Princeton University. Colonel Parrott chanced to be in the Governor of Ohio's office when President Lincoln called for volunteers, believes he was the first man to enlist. He became Colonel of the 1st Ohio Infantry, won medals, was later made provost of Ohio. From 1866-67 he was Speaker of Ohio's Lower House. He went to Ohio Wesleyan, is its oldest living alumnus...