Austin Favours Grice

"Philosophers in Oxford at that time had no premises of their own; we met,
as did other philosophical societies, in various colleges. The room I
remember best was a shabbily comfortable, leathery, Victorian common room
in the front quad of Balliol, secured for our use by R. M. Hare. Less
frequently, a rather similar, but smaller and older room next door in
Trinity, arranged by Nowell-Smith. At least one term, a cold and hideous
lecture room with little desks, also in Balliol. Occasionally, by
arrangement of Grice, we used a rather splendid modern room in St John's,
with a big central table and highly executive chairs, looking like the
board of a prosperous and soberly go-ahead commercial company. Officially
anyway this was the room that Austin favoured." (GJ Warnock, 'Saturday
morning meetings', in _Morality and Language_, p.205, previously in _Essays
on JL Austin_, Clarendon).