704R. Harrod to Wilhelmine Cresswell,
16 October 1937
[a]
"So far as I can
make out Nuffield College is likely to involve me in a great deal of
unpaid work. I got on my high horse, which I always do with the
Vice-Chancellor, it must make him furious, I dont know why I do it, I
dont want to annoy him, and explained how in these investigations it
was now possible to maintain certain high standards of scientific
method, suggesting that if it was left to him it would degenerate
into a talking shop." [1]
- 1. For more
details on the foundation of Nuffield College see letter
705 and Harrod, "Lord Nuffield's Foundation in Oxford"
( 1937:16 ). The
vice-chancellor was A. D. Lindsay, with whom Harrod already had
sharp disagreements in 1934-35 regarding the reorganization of
social studies in Oxford: see note
2 to essay 15 and
letters 430 (and in
particular note 1 ),
431 , and
432 .
- a. From
Christ Church, Oxford#, ALS, two pages, in HPBL Add.
72777/39.
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