"The best tutor I could possibly had"

No. This is not your average Gricean recalling how brilliant Grice was.

It's more important than that.

It's Grice recalling how brilliant W. F. R. Hardie was.

Hardie was Grice's _tutor_ at Corpus Christi, and 'prig' is perhaps _the_ word Hardie used with a straight face. Grice recalls Hardie's tutorials with affection in "The life and opinions of Paul Grice, and it was not just how to tell a prig what he learned from him, but golf too.

"I count myself wonderfully fortunate to have begun my philosophical studies as a pupil of Hardie, whose book on the Nicomachean Ethics saw me through years of teaching Aristotle's moral theory." (p. 46). -- and there is a book-lenght manuscript on Aristotle's Ethics now at the Grice Collection at Bancroft, UC/Berkeley.

"Grice's admiration for Hardie was leater to develop into [the Aristotelian virtue of] friendship; they were both members of a group from Oxford that went on walking holidays in the summers, and Hardie taught Grice to play golf. The friendship was based in part on a number of characteristics the two had in common. There was their shared rationalism; Grice found welcome echoes of his own approach in Hardie's 'reluctance to accept anything not properly documented'. Moreover, Hardie never admitted defeat. Once, when Grice was taught by a different tutor for one term, the new tutor reported back to Hardie that his student was 'obstinate to the point of perversity'. To Grice's enduring delight, Hardie received this report with thorough approval" (Chapman, _Grice_, Palgrave, p. 14).