Tuesday, June 22, 2010

The rooms of St. John's

--- The Guardian has Quinton as a 'funny' philosopher. He was New College. Grice was St. John's -- a rather more aristocratic one, with bigger rooms. O'Grady comments on Quinton on New College:

"Consulted in 1969 about concerns that male

undergraduates were cohabiting with women in

the college, Quinton ... declared,

--- "That is most unlikely, considering

the size of the rooms," and the

matter was laid to rest."

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