17th Earl of Oxford

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    She came out on the stage in yards of pearls, emerging like
    a favorite scenic view, flashed her golden smile and sang.
    —Robert Earl Hayden (1913–1980)

    The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
    Robertson Davies (b. 1913)