Colleges of the University of Oxford

apparently got his inspiration. Pearson graduated from Hamilton Collegiate Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1913 at the age of 16. Later that same year, he entered Victoria College at the University of Toronto, When World War I broke out in 1914, Pearson volunteered for service as a medical orderly with the University of Toronto Hospital Unit. In 1915, he entered overseas service with the Canadian Army Medical Corps as a stretcher bearer with the rank of private, and was later…

major economic crisis (Oxford Analytica Daily Brief Service 1). It is estimated that the average student loan debt on the United States is around 26,000 dollars and student debt as a whole adds up to approximately 1.3 trillion dollars. Too many people are perpetually stuck in debt and too little is done to aid these former students. University costs are on the rise to this day, while scholarships and financial aid grow more and more limited and exclusive. In the matter of college education and…

C.S. Lewis: “Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.” (“C.S.Lewis.” BrainyQuote.com. Xplore Inc, 2016. 26 February 2016. https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_s_lewis.html). This is said by C.S. Lewis who dared to write about subjects writers at the time few dared to write about. Being raised in a Christian…

England while he was still a child. He attended King Edward’s school in his child and teen years. When he was an adult J.R.R. Tolkien started to attend Exter college in Birmingham England. J.R.R Tolkien joined the faculty of the University of Leeds before he joined Oxford University. Tolkien was hired to be a professor at Oxford University in 1920. When he was there he started a writing, group called The Inklings where he wrote a short line about a hobbit when he was grading a paper.…

C.S. Lewis and The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist. He is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia, but has many other well-known novels and series. The best known book in the Narnia series is The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, the first book of seven. By looking at The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, one can see that…

in the 19th century, otherwise known as the Victorian Era (Shiefen). He is known greatly for his involvement in the Oxford movement, a movement in which many men argued for the want of older Christian traditions to return so that the Church of England could be brought back to its Catholic roots. Before Newman was a part of the Oxford movement, he was a very popular priest at Oxford, and he later became a cardinal. Throughout his life, John Henry Newman preached to many about Jesus and he proved…

give the world a jumpstart and that the world didn't start from chaos. Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford England January 8th 1942 same date Galileo died. He was not born in a very wealthy family nor a Very poor family. Stephen has two other siblings Mary and Phillipa and adopted brother named Edward. He attended ST. Albans school. Yet he struggled academically he later attended Oxford University when he was 17 years old. He like math but wasnt…

High School in Chicago, where he excelled as a student and an athlete. Hubble graduated in the class of 1906 when he was just 16 years old, two years younger than most people who graduate high school. That earned him an academic scholarship at the University of Chicago. He earned a scholarship in physics in his junior year, and when he was a senior, he was working as a lab assistant to physicist Robert A. Millikan. Hubble graduated with the class of 1910 with a bachelor’s degree in both…

nature, society, and the government, and Bentham and Mill, as that of utilitarianism and its impact on society and government. The Origin of Thomas Hobbes Hobbes was an English philosopher, born on April 5, 1588, in Westport, England. He attended Oxford University, and was interested in mathematics and philosophy. In 1651, Hobbes wrote his best-known work, Leviathan, which was inspired by political events…

turned Frost down, but now came calling. He taught at Dartmouth and Amherst College, but his most significant association was with the latter. In 1924, he won a Pulitzer Prize in New Hampshire and also received his honorary degree at Yale University. Around seven years later, he received a Russell Loines Poetry Prize and another Pulitzer Prize for collected poems. He received another honorary degree from Dartmouth College two years later, and his third Pulitzer Prize no more than four years…