5 DECEMBER 1970, page 18

Education

Grants to stay RHODES BOYSON The very day that a conference was being held on the progress of the Independent University Mrs Thatcher announced, to the disappointment of many......

Medicine

Vowel functionS JOHN ROWAN WILSO\ There has been alarm expressed about the number of doctors now working in our hos. pitals with a less than perfect command of the English......

Thomas Hardy

Forty years later the pain of love Suddenly pressed upon him; Breaking the long silence, then the words He used for passion were harsh and dry as strings. Wryly, not to be......