Calendar: 1930-1931 Page 439
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XXV111 annual report Department op Modern Greek There were six regular students in the Department two of whom were Research students engaged respectively in studies connected with Byzantine Liturgy and the Greek War of Independence Public lectures were given in King College in each term of the Session see pp xlv-xlviii School of Slavonic Studies Number of Students Post-graduate Lit Ph 14 Μ ΑΛ Μ τ jfajn qB Honours 16 Sc Intermediate Academic Diploma Diploma in Journalism War Office Class in Russian Seminar in Economics 13 Elementary Classes in Slavonic Languages 27 Total 83 New Developments The quarters of the School in Malet Street being required for an extension of the work of the Institute of Historical Research the School was transferred at the end of 1928 to 40 Torrington Square where it has much better accommodation for research work The moving of the Library was superintended by Mr Wharton who used the occasion to introduce new classification The Czecho-Slovak Government has most generously offered to pro- vide permanent quarters for the School in house to be specially built for it on the Bloomsbury site This offer has been gratefully accepted by the University In order the more completely and objectively to cover the field of study lying between other Departments and the area of the School of Oriental Studies the title of the School has been extended to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies Departmental Notes Professor Pares delivered number of public lectures on present- day Russia and course at Putney of twelve lectures on Contemporary Russia He also for the second time addressed the British Institute of International Affairs on the same subject In the Lent Term he visited the United States where he lectured in twenty-five Universities at the same time establishing and extending the co-operation of American scholars with the work of the School and also extending the
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