[lit-ideas] U and non-U (Was: Mitford -- The droppage
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 15:37:30 EST
Walter Okshevsky quotes my:
>Oddly (and nicely so) Grice never taught _those_ courses,
>[i.e. the 'metaphysical philosophy' or 'moral philosophy'
>lectures associated with the Waynflete and the White
>chairs at Oxford] but at most was a
>_tutorial_ fellow with St. John's, or a _university lecturer_.
and writes:
>Grice never visited St. John's. Or any other city in Newfoundland, as far
as I
>know.
>Walter Okshevsky
>In the east end of St. John's
>Newfoundland and Labrador
I was referring to St. John's _College_, where H. P. Grice was elected
full-time Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy in 1938 -- had Strawson in 1939 as one
of
his first tutees -- and never abandoned the post till he was offered the Full
Professor of Philosophy Chair at UC/Berkeley for the fall term of 1967.
That's, mmm. let's see
1967
- 1939
--------
28 years of loyalty to St. John's.
I was, following Nancy Mitford (who follows A. Ross, of Birmingham)
*dropping* the "College" as it minimizes the thing.
According to Mitford it's non-U to say _College_, when the pretentious
enough "St. John's" will do.
(She also thinks it's non-U to say "Hall", "Place", "Park", "House",
"Castle", "Palace", "University", etc. -- "These things are pretentious enough
and
one would feel silly saying that she's gone to "Longleat House", or that one's
son went up to Cambridge _University_. As if there were something else in
Cambridge *other* than the University!?")
Cheers,
JL
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