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Glover/A/A1/6/2/107
Unique identifier
GB 275 Glover/A/A1/6/2/107
Title
ALS to T. R. Glover
Date(s)
- 23 Jan. 1920 (Creation)
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1 p. paper
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Congratulates Glover on his election to the office of Public Orator, as an old pupil. Bemoans the position of Classics in a society with a 'prosaically utilitarian and exclusively financial view of education'. Refers to fellow students L. W. Clarke and R. F. Hewgill. Explains that during the First World War he attended an Officers' course run by Colonel Edwardes and Major Comber, but was refused a commission due to having relations in the German service, and was given a job in postal censorship instead.