• Literae humaniores, nicknamed classics, is an undergraduate course focused on classics (Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece, Latin, ancient Greek, and philosophy)...
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    Zealand and the Governor of Pitcairn. Thomas did a bachelor’s in literae humaniores at Oxford University and a master's in economics at the London School...
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    The Faculty of Classics, previously the Faculty of Literae Humaniores, is a subdivision of the University of Oxford concerned with the teaching and research...
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  • the end of the first part of some degree courses (e.g., Greats or Literae Humaniores). Honour Moderations candidates have a class awarded (hence the 'honours')...
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    College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in Literae humaniores in 1838, before being elected a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford...
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  • Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. It is equivalent to Literae Humaniores at Oxford University. It is traditionally a three-year degree, but...
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  • Oxford in the 1920s, as a modern alternative to classics (known as "literae humaniores" or "greats" at Oxford) because it was thought as a more modern alternative...
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  • where her parents ran a prep school for boys. From 1958, she read Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Somerville College, Oxford. Barker's only novel, O Caledonia...
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  • converted to a professorship in 2000, on the recommendation of the Literae Humaniores Board and with the concurrence of the General Board. According to...
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    College, Oxford, in 1884, graduating in 1888 with a first class in literae humaniores. He was called to the bar at the Middle Temple in 1892. Chisholm worked...
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  • educated at Winchester College and received a first class degree in literae humaniores ("the Greats") from New College, Oxford. Stevens remained at Oxford...
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    educated at University College, Oxford where he earned an MA degree in Literae Humaniores and the Bachelor of Civil Law degree. He was called to the Bar in...
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    graduated B.A. in 1838, having been placed in the first-class in literæ humaniores in the preceding year, and proceeded M.A. in 1871. He was created...
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  • Open University. Chappell was born in November 1964. She studied Literae humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford, having been awarded the Anne Shaw Classical...
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    volunteer and then went to New College, Oxford, to read Classics (Literae Humaniores); there she edited the student paper Isis. In 1989 she joined the...
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  • at Winchester College and Baillie College, Oxford, where he read literae humaniores and received a first. (Baillie College is clearly based on Balliol...
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    diverse history and myriad forms; knowledge of the humane letters (literae humaniores) represented by the best Greek and Latin authors, and more broadly...
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  • obtained a First in Classical Moderations in 1888 and a First in Literae Humaniores ('Greats', a combination of philosophy and ancient history) in 1890...
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  • then went to Queen's College, Oxford with a scholarship to study Literae humaniores (classics). Having achieved a second class in Mods, he changed to...
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    College, an all-boys public school near Windsor, Berkshire. He studied Literae Humaniores (Classics) at Magdalen College, Oxford. Like his fellow ancient historians...
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    Wilson graduated from Balliol College, Oxford in 1994 with a B.A. in literae humaniores, classical literature, and philosophy. She completed an MPhil in English...
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  • finals in 1933 he received a first in Literae Humaniores (Philosophy and Ancient History). Literae Humaniores introduced Austin to serious philosophy...
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    17 to matriculate into the University of Oxford, where he studied literae humaniores (i.e. classics) at New College, Oxford. He achieved a Fourth-class...
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  • Bridcut was educated at Keble College, Oxford, obtaining a MA in literae humaniores (classics) in 1971. He is a honorary fellow of Keble College. In 1975...
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  • Classical Moderations in 1933 followed by first-class honours in Literae Humaniores in 1935 and in theology a year laterref. Lampe was a chaplain to 34...
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  • has no ablative case (Bernard may, like Sir Humphrey, have read Literae Humaniores, but equally a basic knowledge of Greek and Latin may merely suggest...
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  • educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and read classics (literae humaniores) at Lincoln College, Oxford, graduating in 2002. He then studied for...
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  • He took a Second in Classical Moderations in 1920 and a Third in Literae Humaniores ('"Greats") in 1922. Watling taught Classics at King Edward VII School...
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  • he attended New College, Oxford as a scholar, and took a first in literae humaniores in 1921. In 1922 he was elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls...
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  • the Donald E. Bridgman Essay Prize, and graduated with honours in Literae Humaniores. Who was who: a companion to Who's who: containing the biographies...
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