127R. R. H. Dundas to Harrod,
18 December 1926
[a]
Dundas
illustrates the discussions conducive to Harrod's election to the
junior censorship at Christ Church; he points out that it had been
discussed all term, and if Harrod had objections he ought to have
raised his points before.
[1]
- 1. Harrod was
junior censor of Christ Church from 1927 to 1929; then he became
senior censor. Junior censorship involved part of the disciplinary
work of the college. Shortly before taking up the senior
censorship, Harrod so described the situation:
- In the middle of 2 of my six
years as don cultivated particularly aesthetic, effeminate set,
because they were least shy of dons and one could get intimacy
with them, which was otherwise absent. (In vacation seldom see
people of my age). 2 years ago had to take on this job of
keeping discipline in Christ Church, a college in which a
hunting, whip-crackening set was prominent. For a term or so I
was panicky. I was afraid that I had a reputation for being too
intimate with aesthetes; my conduct was indeed always strictly
correct; but I was afraid that the hunting set would regard me
as an aesthete to be ragged and give me the hell of a time.
Actually I soon settled down to being an efficient
disciplinarian and have long been on the best of terms with all
sets. But I was much worried, for a term or so, which
[...] was really rather a strain on me. [untitled
autobiographical statement, end of summer 1928, seven pages, in
pencil, HPBL Add. 72775/11-17].
(On
the group of aesthetes see note
3 to letter 80
R).
Dundas further wrote on 24 December, encouraging Harrod not to
resign from the junior censorship, as he could not get out as
easily as he got in (in HPBL Add. 72728/173).
- a. From
Laurel Hill, Stirling # , ALI, two pages, in HPBL
Add. 72728/172.
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