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Head and shoulders

Describes College life. Also documents White's experiences as a conscientious objector, his attempt to gain exemption from military service, the actions and advice of various bodies, including the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Union of Democratic Control, and his tribunal hearing in Cambridge. Includes newspaper cuttings of conscientious objectors' cases held before the tribunal and various correspondence concerning the same.

Mentions various members of St John's College, including E. Cunningham, J. Larmor and N.B. Jopson, as well as Bertrand Russell.

The research topics are numbered 1-9, 0 and 1A-3A and correspond to those identified also in the filing cabinet index at C6. Some of the index cards have notes on the physical location of the material and the bulk relate to identified folders. Other sets of index cards in the box were used to record notes, letters etc on historical and other topics. There are sets of cards on Ebenezer Cunningham, Philip Jourdain, 'Letters concerning Committee on Teaching of Mathematics to Physicists 1943-5', and other topics.