| Description | With Christmas over, Ridgeway writes about various reforms of schools and university teaching. He gives an account of their attempt in 1906-7 to create a scheme for a Joint Oxford and Cambridge matriculation, which was 'burked' by Council and by Oxford. He describes reactions to the Greek proposals and talk of a Commission, which sends a shudder through Trinity College. They may favour Ridgeway's proposals, which would not touch their dividends; they are in the position of 'wicked dukes' Ridgeway thinks, starving the poor to line their pockets. Ridgeway believes that now if the time to make an effort for a joint matriculation or a leaving certificate, supported by 'Greek stalwarts' and young liberals. On University and College teaching, he thinks that supertaxation is the route to getting what is needed, and he wants to talk these matters over with Larmor. |