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Old Tripos Days at Cambridge, As Seen from Another Viewpoint

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

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Nothing can convince us more that “things are not what they seem” than a comparison of the descriptions by two men of what they remember of Cambridge in the seventies ! I should of course recognise my friend Professor Forsyths picture of the Cambridge of that time and am grateful for his calling to my mind so many memories of the past. But for me he has painted them in far too drab a colour, so that one wonders whether his undergraduate days could have been like mine some of the happiest in his life. The reading of his paper enforces upon me the truth of the principle that environment and personalities are not things in themselves, but are our own “constructs”—each of us giving our own “reality” to such evasive phenomena.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1936

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