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  Item Reference: KCLCAL-1975-1976-397

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Annual Report of the Delegacy xxv to use the subject matter of his degree see nothing here to be sad about But person is the product of his own experiences myself like any- one else and these help to form his opinions My own first first degree was in Latin and Greek in ancient history and philosophy but in the career subsequently followed cannot ever remember having to draw professionally upon knowledge of what Plato said about his Republic or Thucydides about the Pelopponesian War But knowing what know now if the choice were offered me all over again would make exactly the same choice again and submit most willingly to the rigour of Greats at Oxford and to the school of modern history with which followed it We are possibly in King's more inclined would say to what is basic than to what is applied-if that is an acceptable distinction We are inclined to rigour When look at how things are done here think of the preparation of pugilist for prize fight The emphasis can be laid in prize fighter's training on teaching him the tricks of the trade or on the long and arduous business of bringing him into the best possible physical condition He will need both of course both ringcraft and roadwork The question that arises is where you lay the emphasis which is more important similar question arises in University teaching would say that we probably lay the emphasis here rather more on roadwork than on ringcraft It is in the later rounds if it is permitted to explore this image little further that roadwork tells when the pugilist in better physical condition with the stamina and muscle born of the rigour of roadwork piles up the points It is in the later rounds when it matters most that we hope the products of this gymnasium will score would not suggest that there is no merit in doing things differently have been out of this country now and then these last few years looking little into other University systems and comparing them with our own have not the slightest doubt that we in the United Kingdom are fortunate in ours Nothing is perfect but to name only two aspect of tertiary education in this country our grants sys- tems and our good staff student ratios put ours ahead of that in many others and another very great advantage is in the variety of choices that is offered in the United Kingdom was particularly impressed just year ago as the Vice-Chancellors' Committee's man in the United Kingdom team on week-long OECD conference in Paris on tertiary education to see how our position in this country compared
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