25 SEPTEMBER 1953, page 18

Have Read With Keen Interest The Letters In Recent Issues

of the Spectator on the British Ass. Broadly, I would agree with the criticisms made by your correspondents. The B.A., as at present organised, is an anachronism. It was founded......

Letters To The Editor

The British Association Snt,—Your correspondence on the British Association has an old familiar , ring. I can recall the phrase " wastepaper basket of the learned societies "......