The Wooden Spoon

Stray, Christopher

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“…The difficulties faced by classicists were informally recognised by mathematical examiners, who marked such candidates leniently to enable them to go through in the lowest (third) class of honours. This, however, was itself resented by some mathematicians; the resultant tensions reached a climax in 1841, when the examiners of the year marked down several aspiring classicists, causing a controversy that echoed in the national press (Stray (2022)). Mathematogonia was born of the frustration felt by many undergraduates; Evans was surely referring to himself when he wrote in a note on his text:…”

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“…This alliance became increasingly unstable as the influence of historicism and German scholarship grew from the 1820s. Its institutional support also weakened, as the foundation of the secular London University in 1826 made it possible to conceive of a mode of scholarship which was not tied to Anglican belief (Stray (1998) Richards (1988); it might be seen as analogous to the influence of historicism on classical scholarship and Anglican belief (Conybeare and Goldhill (2021)).…”

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“…This paradoxical celebrity was as much part of the worship of ranking as that of the top of the first class, the Senior Wrangler, according toStray (2012). 11 The two were compared by Waite (1893) vii.…”

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CLASSICS STRIKES BACK: THOMAS EVANS AND HISMATHEMATOGONIA

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2023

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Thomas Saunders Evans’ Greek poem Mathematogonia. The mythological birth of the nymph Mathesis (1839) is one of the outstanding products of the British compositional tradition. The article begins with a brief account of Evans and of the historical context of the poem, which also belongs to the history of mathematics in Britain, and in particular, its teaching in nineteenth-century Cambridge. This is followed by a preliminary note on Mathematogonia; a reproduction of the text of the poem, with Evans’ original preface and notes; an English translation; notes detailing Evans’ sources and borrowings from Tragic texts; and an appendix listing the changes he made after its first publication. The aim is to show what Evans wrote, and to explain what prompted him to do so.

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Constructing Economic Science

Tribe¹

2021

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Constructing Economic Science demonstrates how an existing public discourse, political economy, was transformed in the early twentieth century into a new university discipline: economics. This change in location brought about a restructuring of economic knowledge. Finance, student numbers, curricula, teaching, new media, and the demands of employment all played their part in shaping economics as it is known today. It was broadly accepted in the later nineteenth century that industrialising economies required the skilled and specialised workforce that universities could provide. Advocacy for the teaching of commercial subjects was widespread and international. In Cambridge, Alfred Marshall was alone in arguing that economics, not commerce, provided the most suitable training for the administration and business of the future; and in 1903 he founded the first three-year undergraduate economics programme. This was by no means the end of the story, however. What economics was, how Marshall thought it should be taught, had by the 1920s become contested, and in Britain the London School of Economics gained dominance in defining the new science. By the 1930s, American universities had already moved on from undergraduate to graduate teaching, whereas in Britain university education remained focussed upon undergraduate education. At the same time, public policy was reformulated in terms of economic means and ends—relating to postwar reconstruction, employment, and social welfare—and international economics became American economics. This study charts the conditions that initially shaped the “science” of economics, providing in turn a foundation for an understanding of the way in which this new language itself subsequently transformed public policy.

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The Wooden Spoon

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