Portal:University of Oxford/Did you know/12

Articles from Wikipedia's "Did You Know" archives about the university and people associated with it:
 * ... that Kenelm Hubert Digby was the proposer of the notorious 1933 "King and Country" debate in the Oxford Union (debating chamber pictured)?
 * ... that the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club claims to be the second oldest ice hockey team in the world?
 * ... that Christopher Elrington, general editor of the Victoria County History, was a professor at the University of London even though he never taught there?
 * ... that the position of Laudian Professor of Arabic was established at Oxford by William Laud, the Archbishop of Canterbury?
 * ... that Gwilym Davies was the first person to broadcast in Welsh, on Saint David's Day in 1923?

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