356R. L. C. Robbins to Harrod,
2 May 1934
[a]
The letter
concerns the expulsion of Meyer from the LSE: Robbins finds
interesting what Harrod writes on his character, but nothing can be
done about this case. [1]
Robbins adds that the papers have arrived, that he signed them and
sent them off, and that he agrees with Harrod's corrections.
[2]
- 1. F. S.
Meyer, an American graduate anthropologist who was the president
of the student's union, was expelled from the LSE together with H.
J. Simons, the president of the Marxist Society, for defying
Beveridge's prohibition of selling the Student Vanguard paper
after this published a libellous article on one of the School's
professors. The episode is described in J. Harris, William
Beveridge. A Biography, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977, pp. 291-93.
Harrod also wrote twice to Beveridge on Meyer's character and
ability, but was explained that the nature of his offence has made
impossible to consider taking him back (Beveridge to Harrod, 30
April and 7 May 1934, in HPBL Add. 71182/1-2; Harrod's letters
have not been found).
2.
Presumably refers to Harrod's article on "The
Expansion of Credit in an Advancing Community" (
1934:8 ), which appeared in the August issue of Economica.
- a. From
The London School of Economics, Aldwich, W.C.2. # ,
ALI, eight pages, in HPBL Add. 71188/125-128.
Welcome page
top of page
Return to index of this section
Go to previous page
Go to next page