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CMB - Committee minute books of the Royal Society
- 88 - Yarrow Educational Fund Committee

RefNo	CMB/88/6
Level	File
Title	Account of a meeting between Mr John F Yarrow of Vancouver and Sir Frank Smith
Date	10 April 1935
Description	' In accordance with a request made, he [Mr John F Yarrow] presented a brief report on what he had been doing during the last twelve months and what he proposed to do. He appeared to be a boy of great ambition, but undoubtedly he had suffered a good deal in health. He was concerned particularly with regard to his entrance to Cambridge University and explained that admission depended upon an examination in Latin, in which he was specialising, but that he might obtain honours if in addition to Latin he took Engineering. It was clear that he intended Engineering to be his profession, but after a long talk with him, Sir Frank Smith dissuaded him from concentrating on Engineering at the present juncture, fearing that it might lead to another breakdown in health, whereas if he concentrated on Latin and kept his health, his admission to Cambridge seemed reasonably certain. He was exceedingly grateful for the interest taken in him and asked particularly if he might communicate direct with the Committee for advice if he were in difficulties at Cambridge. He was once more with his tutor at Westgate, but he explained that his present tutor did not compare in efficiency with the one who accompanied him when he was on holiday in America. Clearly he was not very much attracted to Latin, but he said that his former tutor made it a much more lively subject, in which he could take an interest, than his present one appeared to be capable of. He appeared to be a youth above the average intelligence and left no doubt that his was a case which Sir Alfred Yarrow would have encouraged the Committee to support financially. '
Extent	1p
Format	Typescript
AccessStatus	Open

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