New College, Oxford
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.
Though an outstanding student, Bowra was very sociable, and his circle as an undergraduate included Cyril Radcliffe (with whom he shared lodgings), Roy Harrod, Robert Boothby, L. P. Hartley, Lord David Cecil, J. B. S. Haldane, and Christopher Hollis. Bowra also became a friend of Dadie Rylands. The teachers who influenced him included Gilbert Murray and Alic Smith. The treatment he received from one of his tutors in philosophy, H. W. B. Joseph, was said by Isaiah Berlin to have "undermined his faith in his own intellectual capacity."
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