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Bowra went up to New College, Oxford in 1919, and took a first class in Honour Moderations in 1920 and a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1922.
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Bowra and up
Working with only eight letters ( or pro ... tr ... ntes ), Bowra conjured up a phrase that brilliantly develops the meaning and the euphony of the poem ( or proton ' ontrechontes ), describing luminescence " running along the forestays ".
On returning to England Bowra trained with the OTC in Oxford, before being called up and sent to the Royal Army Cadet School in March 1917.
Bowra and New
At the end of the sixties, the Warden, Sir Maurice Bowra, President of the British academy and one of the first co-founders of the British Institute of Persian Studies ( BIPS ) welcomed a donation to construct the building of the New Library in Wadham, where the emphasis would be given to Persian Studies and the post in Persian.
Bowra and College
* Edward Charles Bowra, Sinologist and botanist, attended City of London College
Bowra then boarded at Cheltenham College, where he began his studies in April 1910, his father returning to China a couple of weeks later.
By the time Bowra left Cheltenham College, his father was Chief Secretary of the Customs Service, residing in Beijing with a household employing thirty servants.
Waugh attended Hertford College ( 1922 – 24 ), and so, was in no sense, Bowra's pupil ; indeed they scarcely knew one another at that time, whereas Cyril Connolly, Henry Green and Anthony Powell knew Bowra quite well when they were undergraduates.
In 1992, Wadham College named its new Bowra Building in his honour.
Outside that club he came to know Maurice Bowra, then a young don at Wadham College.
She attended North London Collegiate School, studied classics at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford where she sang in Schola Cantorum of Oxford, wrote a PhD on Greek poetry, and was first Bowra Research Fellow at Wadham College Oxford which altered its Statutes for her to accommodate female Fellows.
Bowra and Oxford
In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.
The election was held on 5 October 1938, and coincided with the Oxford by-election campaign, in which Bowra lent his support to the anti-Appeasement candidate, Sandy Lindsay.
During the Second World War Bowra served in the Oxford Home Guard.
In his long career as an Oxford don, Bowra had contact with a considerable portion of the English literary world, either as students or as colleagues.
As an undergraduate in 1920s Oxford, Bowra was fashionably homosexual, and was known to cruise for sex.
* Kenneth Conboy, Kenneth Bowra, and Simon McCouaig, The NVA and Viet Cong, Elite 38 series, Osprey Publishing Ltd, Oxford 1992.
Bowen and her husband first lived near Oxford, where they socialized with Maurice Bowra, John Buchan and Susan Buchan, and where she wrote her early novels, including The Last September ( 1929 ).
Bowra and first
The first three judges were Maurice Bowra, Cyril Connolly and Raymond Mortimer.
Bowra and Honour
Bowra was knighted in 1951, and was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1971.
Bowra and .
These fragments typically feature lacunae or gaps that scholars fill with ' educated guesses ', including for example a " brilliant supplement " by Maurice Bowra in fr. 34, a hymn to the Dioscuri that includes a description of St Elmo's fire in the ship's rigging.
Bowra's colleagues made haste to cover their private parts ; Bowra merely covered his head.
* Bowra Maurice ( 1957 ), The Greek experience.
Burnett follows others, like C. M. Bowra, in suggesting that Sappho's circle was somewhat akin to the Spartan agelai or the religious sacred band, the thiasos, but Burnett nuances her argument by noting that Sappho's circle was distinct from these contemporary examples because " membership in the circle seems to have been voluntary, irregular and to some degree international.
** Maurice Bowra, British critic ( b. 1898 )
C. M. Bowra tied the myth to the period following the expulsion from Corinth of the aristocratic Bacchiadae, who traced their descent from Dionysus: " the cult of the god had to develop new and more democratic forms.
There is an ancient tradition, upheld for example by Eustathius and Thomas Magister, that he was younger than Pindar and some modern scholars have endorsed it, such as Jebb, who assigns his birth to around 507 BC, whereas Bowra, for example, opted for a much earlier date, around 524 – 1 BC.
Sir Maurice Bowra, scholar and wit, was Warden between 1938 and 1970.
A dramatic expansion since 1952 has made use of a range of 17th-and 18th-century houses, a converted warehouse originally built to store bibles, and several modern buildings designed by Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, and the Bowra Building by Sir Richard MacCormac of MJP Architects.
While still a student, he befriended A. J. Ayer ( with whom he was to share a lifelong amicable rivalry ), Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim, Maurice Bowra, Stephen Spender, J. L. Austin and Nicolas Nabokov.
Commenting on the poem, Maurice Bowra observed that "... after the challenging, flaunting opening we are led through a swift account of youth, and then as we approach the horrors of old age, the verse becomes slower, the sentences shorter, the stops more emphatic, until the poet closes with a short, damning line of summary.
Sir Cecil Maurice Bowra (; 8 April 1898 – 4 July 1971 ) was an English classical scholar and academic, known for his wit.
His father was Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra ( 1869 – 1947 ) of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs.
During the Boxer Rebellion, in the summer of 1900, Bowra was evacuated to Japan, along with his mother, older brother Edward, and other women and children of the European community.
went and up
A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.
Then he went on to the Cheyennes and told them that the Sioux was goin' to move up.
He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.
Greg went up tight against the ceiling and led them back to their pass to home.
Ernie's eyebrows went up.
And after all this, Shann went over all that Bang-Jensen had brought up ''.
Yet Britain In The Nineteenth Century became the vade mecum of beginning students of history, went through edition after edition, and continues to be reprinted up to the very present.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.
A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.
They went up against an SS unit of comparable size, over a little rise of ground, over an open field.
`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.
Then they disappeared and Scotty got up and went into his own room and got into bed.
White's arm went up and Warren raised his own.
In the dim underwater light they dressed and straightened up the room, and then they went across the hall to the kitchen.
She sprang up and went swiftly to the bedroom.
His worries harried him up out of bed, and he lighted a cigarette and went to the window.
Startled, he jumped up to pull hen and case out of view, and Alex went to the door.
Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.
Each time Letch `` went up '' in his `` lines '', I was the one to be patient, helpful and apologetic while he indulged in outbursts of temperament, profanity and abuse, blaming others, going into `` sulks '' and, on more occasions than I care to count, storming off the `` set '' for the rest of the day.
The daughter replied, `` Oh, I had dinner with -- well, you don't know him but he's awfully nice -- and we went to a couple of places -- I don't suppose you've heard of them -- and we finished up at a cute little night club -- I forget the name of it.
One woman -- she could have been either English or American -- went up to him and said, ' But you are the foreigners ' ''.
His legs shook, and the shaking went right on up his body through his hips to his shoulders.
Turnover rates of personnel went up, production dropped, and morale was visibly reduced.
The manager sat behind the group so he could see and count the hands that went up, and the director wrote the numbers on the blackboard.
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