SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES
Sut,—Some ten years ago, in a little book called A Plan for a Plan (anonymous), I suggested that, so far as Public Schools were concerned, many difficulties would be solved if the attempt were made to divide boys, at an early stage, into what may crudely be called the "literary" and " mathematics-scientific " groups. Neither should neglect the studies appropriate to the other, but should approach them by different methods and with different objects in view. The idea was received with some sympathy by the Head Masters' Conference, and with apparent approval by a gathering of the Royal Ir stitution, but the book, no doubt for good reasons, received little attention. I still feel that it is only by some such methods that we can hope to avoid the perils of premature and excessive specialisation, and preserve a due balance between science and the humanities.—Your obedient servant, The Deanery, Durham. C. A. AutiGroN.
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