NEGLECT OF CLASSICS
CONTROVERSY IN BRITAIN. STATEMENTS BY PROFESSORS CHALLENGED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 3. A lively controversy has been aroused in the Press by statements by Sir Darcy Thompson, Professor of Natural History at St. Andrews University, and Six’ Charles Grant Robinson, principal of Birmingham University, suggesting that the youngex- generation of students was unacquainted with the classics of English literature. “The Times” published the opinions of a numbex- of librarians whose evidence, while not immediately relevant to the complaints of the eminent university teachers, does at least conflict with any idea of a general decline of public interest in the literary masterpieces of other times. In the case of Swifts “Gulliver’s Travels,” one of the books mentioned in Sir Darcy Thompson’s indictment, the two copies in the lending library of one London borough had each been borrowed more than 50 times in the year, and at Croydon it was reported to be in steady and constant demand.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 5
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160NEGLECT OF CLASSICS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 December 1938, Page 5
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