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from the contingent proposal touching the future of the
Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.
Among the rest, I gather, the resentments expressed
against the report when it was first published are no
longer heard, and in general the senior members of the
staff with four exceptions have actively supported the
proposed changes. This disregards the opinion of two
men absent on leave, one of whom would have supported,
the other probably would have opposed.
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It may, I think, be safely claimed that the
reforms advocated by the Court, which are derived almost
entirely from the able and penetrating report of
Mr. N.L. Smith's Committee (1937), go far towards the
right adjustment of the University's aims and methods.
Interdependent as many of them are, I trust that they
will succeed in obtaining your complete concurrence.
21.
I am aware of the suggestions which were made
in 1937 that an independent academic commission should
by invited to study the problems now in question. Sir
Andrew Caldecott in his Congregational Address of 4th
of January 1937 mentioned such a possibility and the
Questions and Answers in Parliament on the date 26th of
May 1937 which accompanied your note of 3rd of June 1937
were also concerned with this.
I have no hesitation in advising you that the
conclusions now reported render it unnecessary for such
a proposal to be further considered at the present time
and I trust that that view will have your concurrence.
I should take this opportunity of paying a
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