I Expressed Last Week My Firm Resolve To Dissociate Myself
completely from Hogmanay and its supposititious derivations. I have no intention of going back on that, except to observe that the Concise Oxford Dictionary, which thinks it......
It Is Unfortunate That Dr. Audrey Richards Cannot Join The
Royal Commission on Land and Population in East Africa as a full member, though her willingness to co-operate with the Commission in every way possible when it is sitting in......
A Spectator's Notebook
I DO not weaken in my conviction that everyone who is not already sick of the word Coronation will lie long before June 2nd arrives. By that I do not mean, of course, that I......
The Challenge To Freedom
p RESIDENT EISENHOWER'S inaugural address was simple, impressive and instinct with a strong religious fervour. In certain respects it recalled Lincoln, in others Woodrow Wilson.......
The English Language Is A Strange Thing, And It Gets
developed in strange ways. Or doesn't get developed. Medical science is responsible for a good deal. Incidentally I am asked, by _a reader who reluctantly acquiesces in......
As I Write The Fate Of Derek William Bentley Is
still un- decided. I believe that there is, and I think that there should be, a strong public opinion adverse to the execution of this man. Public opinion, certainly any mere......
I Am, As All Readers Of This Column Know, Conspicuously
modest, not to say deprecatory, where any achievement by the University of Cambridge is concerned. When, therefore, I recall that the University Rugger match last term was won......
It Is No Doubt Very Philanthropic Of The Royal Mint
to go on coining farthings at a cost of a halfpenny apiece, but is there any sort of sense in it ? Who wants farthings ? They are quite abominable coins. Drapers no longer, so -......
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