With Charity For All
SIR.—I have just seen your excellent article 'With Charity for All,' by Leslie Adrian. in your edition of January 14. The writer quite rightly points out that the solution to......
Sir,—one More Female Mathematician For Mr. A. D. Mac...
Signora Gaetano Agnesi, of Milan was offered the Chair of Mathematics by the University of Bologna somewhere in the 1740s, and wrote to ask the Pope, Benedict XIV, if he......
Strtx On Temperance Sir. --in Last Week's Issue Colonel...
in his always delightful way, to the improbability of a temperance movement beginning in White's. It is just possible that such a movement, starting there, might play a......
Sir,—i Was Most Encouraged By Your Prediction That Health Is
likely to be one of the subjects which dominate future discussion of the social services in Britain. Certainly, in terms of expenditure, health has fared rather poorly compared......
The Menace Of The 'sixties
Sts.--'Has anyone ever heard of a great woman mathematician?' asks Mr. A. D. Mac Dougall. Sts.--'Has anyone ever heard of a great woman mathematician?' asks Mr. A. D. Mac......
An Address To The Electors Of Oxford
By EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH ERY laughable, this little affair they're V having up in Oxford. The election to the Professorship of Poetry, I mean. What?—You haven't heard of it? Why,......
Sir,—a Belated Comment For Mr. Simon Raven, Whose Writing I
much admire. So long as he con- tinues to demonstrate his feminine flair for minting new words, his work is unlikely to become, as he fears, unsellable; nor (to be thoroughly......
The Election Will Be Held In The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford,
on Febr*ary 3 and 5, and all Oxford AlAs may vole.......
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