John Alexander Smith - Attributed Authorship

Attributed Authorship

Wanted ! A New School at Oxford, Oxford, 1909. Robert Currie tentatively attributes to Smith this pamphlet, which proposes 'a modern-side Greats, based on philosophy' similar in the event to the school of Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) founded in 1920. (R. Currie, 'The Arts and Social Studies, 1914-1939', The History of the University of Oxford, v. VIII, The Twentieth Century, ed. B. Harrison, Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1995, 112.

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