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The Big Freeze 2 Editor’s letter 2 Graduation 2003 3 Parade Profile: Peter Lipton 4–5 Reunion Weekend 6–8 Feminism and Anti-feminism 9 Books by Members 10 Books by Fellows 11 Orientalism and Modernism 12–13 KCA Lunch 14 In Short 15 College News 16 Letters 17 Development Summer Party 17 Development News 18–19 Events & Crossword 20 BRIAN PICKARD (1960) Winter 1963 Editor’s Letter The Big Freeze King’s is a College with a history of making news, and in this issue we republish a photograph of the first – forty years ago women at King’s from The Observer of 1972. To coincide with the 1971–1974 reunion dinner this autumn we have sought comments about that period A conversation with Brian Pickard (1960) from some of those first women. Since nearly a tenth of all King’s members live in the USA and Canada, and at the Development Summer Party in July several came over for the reunion, we also pick up resulted in him digging out his forty year their news and perspectives on King’s in the 70s. The Research Centre in King’s is a powerhouse and old transparencies of the big freeze of 1963 there are two research features in this issue, one relating to Feminism and Anti-Feminism in the and having prints made. Edwardian period, and the other promoting a conference next year on Orientalism and Modernism. (1960) Members who enjoy coming back to the College for the KCA Lunch may like to know that there are plans for next year’s lunch on 11 July to include a talk on

E.M. Forster, together with an accompanying archive BRIAN PICKARD exhibition. How to fund Higher Education is a hot topic and The Provost’s Seminar, rescheduled for 13 February 2004, will bring in top speakers to debate the issues. Members wishing to attend should contact Angela Reeves in the Development Office – she co-ordinates events for members. Members donating books to the College may not realise that the current practice is to acknowledge Full term had begun a week he spent twenty minutes or so such gifts on the Library section of the website, and late for me as I was stranded, explaining the organ to me and not, as previously, in the Annual Report. The College snowbound in Cheltenham, until then left me totally alone in the aims to secure a complete collection of the books, snowploughs eventually succeeded organ loft and placed a single, pamphlets and musical compositions of members. in opening an escape road over lit candle on a table by the The Library can also catalogue material on DVD the Cotswolds. I can still see the South West door to guide me and CD, but the Librarian tries to dissuade members solid wall of snow, as high as the through the darkness when from sending in their offprints because space is coach itself on the top of the hills. I’d finished. There I was alone in at a premium. I certainly recall the intensity this unique, awe-inspiring silence. of the cold that spread over And into that silence came the News about King’s reaches members via a range of the whole term. My room on sound of the piece I began channels. The College website: J staircase had no central heating, playing, the sound coming back www.kings.cam.ac.uk has up-to-date information the rooms were 15’6” high, and to me a second or so later when about admissions policy, finances and the I had to supplement the heat it had barrelled through that Development Programme. from the fire with a paraffin expanse, a sound that was so stove. “Walking on the water” was distinctive and so recognizable, The Editor can be contacted by email or telephone a unique and amazing experience. the sound of King’s organ, and welcomes letters, feedback and contributions The frozen Cam was of course in the growing darkness and from members. Copy deadline for the next issue is the quickest way from one college under that irreplaceable 1 March 2004. [email protected] to another along the Backs; it fan-vaulting, lit by one single Alison Carter also provided for the duration candle. Quite unforgettable, of that period an additional even forty years later. ingenious way of entering College Development Office Brian Pickard (1960) King’s College after midnight. Cambridge CB2 1ST Another highlight was the day I plucked up courage to ask David Tel: 01223 331313 Willcocks if I could play the King’s organ. That same evening, the big freeze | 2 ALL PHOTOS ALISON CARTER

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A. New graduates, their parents C. LLM graduates Henry Mares (2002) and friends relax at the graduation and Sean Crosky (2002) party – a barbecue on the Back Lawn D. Maria de la Riva, Admissions and Graduate Tutor’s B. Will Rubens (1999) Assistant, helping Paul Hoegger (2000) and Willow Murton (1999) aduation 2003 aduation

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JACOB LIPTON P rd rfl:Peter Lipton arade Profile: cut NewYorker;unusuallyforaKing’sFellow,he The PeterLiptonIamfamiliarwithisafriendly,clean- always sort ofchildwho askedwhy–alot.Andsuddenly he’s question, soIstartbyaskinghim whetherhewasthe and youdon’tgetanexplanation unlessyouaskawhy- Max Perutz.Histitlewillbe‘The TruthaboutScience’. Lecture –previousspeakersinclude KarlPopperand And nextJunehewillgivetheRoyalSociety’sMedawar (The reportcanbefoundatwww.nuffieldbioethics.org.) developments in‘personalisedmedicine’willraise. September ontheethicalandpolicyissuesthatnew group onPharmacogenetics,whichreportedin has recentlychairedtheNuffieldCouncilworking Department ofHistoryandPhilosophyScience.He and thedarkbluesuit’sonholiday. sweatshirt. Butheisbaskinginhissartorialsabbatical, disconcerted toseehimdressedinjeansanda possible toknowwhetherthepastwillbeareliable philosophy textbook–theoneaboutitnotbeing contribute. But,inalessonstraightoutofthe so theparticipantsfeeltheyallhavegoodpointsto wonderful knackofchairingProvost’sSeminargroups Philosophically, hisspecialinterest isexplanation, Peter istheHansRausingProfessorandHeadof wears asuit,usuallydarkbluesuit.Hehas hlspyo cec.HetalkstoAlisonCarter. Science. of Philosophy and History of theDepartment and Headof P r accurate predictions, the truth abouttheworld, produce Dothey methods canbetaken toproduce. what those so, andif methods canbejustified, scienceaskwhether scientific “… philosophers of orderly office,Iam when wemeet,inhis always beingblack– about ravensnot guide tothefuture, lal ehooy orwhat?” eliable technology, eter Lipton(1994)istheHansRausingProfessor chapter for ambitious claimsnowrejected,”hewritesinhis opinion? “Thehistoryofscienceisagraveyard distinguishes justifiedbeliefinsciencefrommere how muchofitwehave,andacquireit.What knowledge, itisPeter’sjobtoaskwhatknowledgeis, acquisition, andassomeoneinterestedinthetheoryof follows. Scienceisinthebusinessofknowledge nothing todowitheachother.Oneconnectiongoesas included, thinkthatphilosophyandsciencehave conversation altogether.Manypeople,somescientists says; admittingtophilosophyofsciencecankilloffthe that onedoesphilosophycanstallaconversation,he contrast between thetinyportionsofworld with who workonthetheoryofknowledge, istheenormous technology, orwhat?” about theworld,accuratepredictions, reliable can betakentoproduce.Dothey producethetruth methods canbejustified,andifso,whatthose penny droppedandImadethegreatdiscoverythat continues, withacceleratingdelivery.“Andthenthe answers.” Pause.“She’sa answers it…AndthenIask‘why?’aboutthat;andshe Museum –andIaskawhy-question.Andmymother Madison –welivedablockawayfromtheGuggenheim walking withmymotheron88thStreetfromFifthto telling meastory,instand-upcomedianmode.“I’m Admitting atacocktailparty(howeverproverbial) “What drivesalotofmyresearch, likemanypeople “So philosophersofscienceaskwhetherscientific Cambridge Contributions very patient woman!”He . she gaveIcould whatever answer pretty much always regress ofwhys. fascinated bythe explanation, the natureof special interestin science, witha philosopher of short, he’snowa To cutalongstory kept ongoing…” about that.SoIjust ask why which each of us is in direct causal contact and the Peter went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, much much larger portions we take a view on. I’ve Connecticut. It’s a “nondescript New England mill town only had any kind of direct contact with what has with a very good liberal arts college” about a hundred happened during a few years of the history of the miles northeast of New York City. Although in the US universe,” he laughs, “and mostly in the precincts of you don’t apply to university in a particular subject, Manhattan and Cambridge! But I’ve got all sorts of Peter knew he wanted to do a double major in physics beliefs about what happened before I was born, and and philosophy. “It was an odd choice given that I had what’s going to happen tomorrow or what’s done just one physics course and no philosophy at all in happening now in other parts of the world. I also have high school.” So why had he chosen them? “I think the a lot of beliefs about what nobody ever observes, from reason was my vague impression that in different ways invisible particles and forces to what other people are these two subjects are asking particularly fundamental thinking. A lot of what I do in my research is to try to questions. The idea of asking very basic questions really understand a little better how we make those leaps, appealed to me.” and to what extent they can be justified.” When he finished his undergraduate course, he was In a paper called ‘What good is an explanation?’ not sure what to do. “I loved the physics but wasn’t a Peter sets out some of the possible goods, intrinsic and natural mathematician. I loved the philosophy, and I instrumental, that explanations provide. “The name for was also interested in law. So I applied to law schools the intrinsic good of explanation is ‘understanding’,” and to philosophy graduate programmes, including he writes. “But what is this?” He goes on to outline the one at Oxford.” When Oxford accepted him, he various conceptions of understanding according to couldn’t resist. His BPhil supervisor was A J Ayer, which explanations do some or all of the following: and Peter was his last postgraduate. “That was a provide reasons for belief, make familiar, unify, show fantastic experience. I learnt a lot of philosophy from to be necessary, or give causes. He also outlines three Ayer, but I also learnt a lot about teaching. He was general features of explanation which can be used to terrifically quick, and he could put other professional evaluate the broad conceptions of understanding. philosophers down, but with his students he was These features are: the distinction between knowing extremely supportive.” Peter goes on to talk about his that a phenomenon occurs and understanding why it own approach to teaching and the values of the does; the possibility of giving explanations that are not supervision system. “As Ayer taught me, you have to themselves explained; and the possibility of explaining work with what you’re given – it’s a challenge to me a phenomenon in cases where the phenomenon itself as a teacher. I enjoy lecturing in the Cambridge style provides an essential part of the reason for believing – when I’m uninterrupted for fifty minutes. But it’s a that the explanation is correct. very different activity from a good supervision. And I This last case is where his interest in explanation can do either: good and bad ones!” he laughs. “A bad hooks up with his interest in how scientific claims are supervision is a bespoke lecture. When I’m giving a justified, in terms of an account known as ‘Inference good supervision, the discussion is driven by the to the Best Explanation’. By this method scientists student’s essay and arguments all the way through. infer back from the available evidence to the It’s much better for the student, and considerably hypothesis which would, if correct, best explain the more challenging for me.” evidence. He cites the examples of Darwin’s Is he a defender of the supervision system … at all hypothesis of natural selection, and of the red shift costs? “I do think it’s something really special. The phenomenon. (A galaxy’s speed of recession explains hour’s encounter, and the anticipation of the hour, why its characteristic spectrum is red-shifted by a can have an enormous educational impact.” He does specified amount, but the observed red-shift may be think there is room to introduce more small seminar an essential part of the reason the astronomer has for teaching, but rejects the idea that you can just believing the galaxy is receding at that speed.) He asks increase the number of people in a supervision us to consider why causes explain, and in particular without changing its character. “But I do teach first why causes, rather than effects, explain. (A revised year philosophers in pairs – they have to email their and expanded edition of his book Inference to the Best essays to each other beforehand.” Explanation will be out in the Spring.) He contrasts teaching at Cambridge and in the At home, Peter was encouraged to be curious, and as US. “In the States I felt I had to make a choice an only child he was the focus of attention. His parents between going to a small liberal arts college where the put a great value on education, though they had missed focus is on undergraduate education, or going to a big out on university themselves. As Jewish children born university where research is the main thing. There are in , they had both been sent away for safety by lots of people for whom that choice is fine, but I’m their own parents – though his mother was still in not one of those people. Even at Harvard an awful lot Germany on Cristallnacht. They had met in New York, of the teaching gets done by postgraduates rather than where his mother trained in graphic design and his by professors. And you have substantially less of the father had gone into business. Peter was sent to schools kind of personal interaction that you get here in run by the Ethical Society. “These schools were supervisions. So for me it’s an extraordinary privilege socially progressive and academically impressive. I to be in Cambridge, where you really do have an think my high school classmates were as sharp a group emphasis on both research and on undergraduate

of colleagues as I’ve ever had.” teaching.” profile parade | 5 At the end of September this year, members from 1971 –1974 came back to King’s for a reunion dinner. Nearly a tenth of all King’s members live in the USA and Canada, and many from these years had made the trip this time. King’s Parade took the opportunity to call in some of their Reunion memories – and old photos. Charmian Kenner (1972) proposed the toast to the College, and Robert Foley Weekend (1987) replied.

1971–1974 “I’d like to propose a toast to King’s for two whether because of the or reasons: for being one of the first colleges to the miniskirt, or possibly both, I was admit women in 1972, and for being one of admitted and began my stint as one of the the first mixed colleges to appoint a woman first Kingswomen. as Head. I’m pleased to be able to address Those were heady days. We were this particular combination of year groups, welcomed in the College, but there were still from 1971–1974, because you were the a few people outside who hadn’t caught up people who were there when it happened. I yet. I remember having to sign up for think I can say that we were the beneficiaries lectures – you had to put name and college, so I wrote King’s, and the “Many of us man at the desk said ‘But initially felt as that’s not possible!’ and I apprehensive and said ‘Well, it is now!’ That EADEN LILLEY nervous as we was a very satisfying had done on that moment. very first day, But a couple of years decades ago. down the line, I was However, at the beginning to realise that sight of familiar storming the citadel faces and figures, hadn’t changed the world astonishingly for women. Attending my little altered, we first Women’s Liberation resumed Meeting, I heard someone conversations say ‘The women at that had lapsed Cambridge are being 30 years ago and educated to be the wives it felt great! of the men at Cambridge’. King’s treated us This may not have been 1972 magnificently the view of my tutors at of one of the throughout the weekend. I left on an emotional King’s, but it was the view more successful high, better bonded to King’s, and with a feeling of society in general. cases of ‘regime of responsibility to help out in these financially In subsequent years change’. difficult times.” many of us here worked I remember to change that situation, Mary-Anne Enoch (Newton 1972). Mary-Anne is a when I heard and also lived our own Physician doing research in psychiatric genetics that King’s was lives, juggling paid work at the National Institutes of Health in the USA. going to be with the delights and admitting responsibilities of unpaid women in the very year that I was applying work such as bringing up children. to university. It was an irresistible challenge. Congratulations to you all – and things are I put on my miniskirt (it was what we all changing. wore in those days) and headed off for the And that’s when I come to my second key interview. I was asked about my plans for moment in history – the appointment of a later life and I remember stating that I woman Provost at King’s. I’m delighted to eunion weekend r wanted to work for the United Nations, and welcome Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas to the | 6 her career started. got hertimeat King’s andhow a flavour of Marshall Sarah Papineau the 70s back at Looking gave She Programme. Development United Nations to work for the sincegoing years, f lived intheUSA She’s Alumni. King’s chapter of W the organisers of the is oneof or over twenty ashington fTxs Austin. Texas, of University Government, Professor of Government/Business Relations and Chairin BentsenJr. Lloyd M. J ties andremember obligations.” torenew inotherwords, moment, It’s agood and thepostwar boom. popped bubbles rather thanKeynes Thatcher and of with itslegacy faces inahardCollege financialera, thechallenges the understanding of We alsoleftwithagreater the choir. appearance at onthebalcony Hallby thehighpointwas acelestial seen, friends deeply loved andscarcely from thechancetominglewithold Butapart years ago. in Hallthirty eating chosen toerase of thememory includingfood andwine the College, obviously laidonwithgreat care by “It was avery congenial weekend and ames Galbraith (1974), King’s Parade (1974) Marshall in1977 Sarah Papineau

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PHOTO: DAVID WILKINSON.© THE OBSERVER Recent research has led to an awareness of advancement of women in politics sought it Edwardian British feminism as a much broader in education and the professions. Some movement in the early twentieth century than ‘Anti’s’ sought a heightened role of social a simple ‘equality feminism’ pursuing political service by women, in local government, Feminism rights. Edwardian feminism has emerged as a school boards, as Poor Law Guardians. Some fluid identity, drawing on a very wide range of feminists anxiously sought to preserve the cultural and political sources. Feminist domestic status quo in promoting women’s and Anti- contributions have served to highlight gender special qualities and protected role as as a broad, multiform organising idea of mothers, or worked for the liberation of British society. This has been valuable, but a Anglo-Saxon and Christian women only. feminism somewhat one-sided process of historical Indeed, feminists and anti-feminists often research. The ideas and world-views of the drew on very much the same ideas and Virginia Woolf once argued opponents of feminism have not been given vocabulary in making their claims. The very that ‘The history of men’s anything like the same attention. terms did not have distinct content. One The symposium participants aimed for a contributor to Nineteenth Century called for opposition to women’s new approach, examining feminism and anti- ‘the growth of ‘feminism’ in the right emancipation is more feminism simultaneously as two highly direction – that is, of a greater appreciation of interesting perhaps than the mutually dependent aspects of thinking about women’s dignity and aspirations, and a gender in society. In this light, anti-feminism greater realisation of the enormous field of story of that emancipation has proved to be as rich and revealing a activities open to her under the natural 1 itself.’ Certainly, the two historical source as feminist texts, perhaps conditions of her being.’3 Yet despite this stories must be told in because ‘Anti’s’ sought to portray women’s appropriation of ‘feminism’, her article had at demands as leading to much wider social its core an appeal to separate spheres that has conjunction, and this was the change than simply a ‘paper vote’, and were been seen as paradigmatically anti-feminist. theme of a symposium held at forced to outline their ‘dystopian’ expectations ‘Feminism’ was a less coherent and King’s in May 2003. Lucy Delap in many fields. Austin Harrison in the English cohesive entity than might be imagined. It Review argued in 1912: ‘Women … have really was still in competition with terms such as (1997) Fellow and symposium frightened men with their revolutionary ‘femininist’ and ‘Féministe’, and did not organiser explains. aspirations and programmes, which demand indicate an established body of ideas. Nor was not only full political and economic equality there agreement as to what ‘feminism’ but freedom of both mind and body. This, entailed. Though the suffrage struggle did obviously, is no political question. Certainly have a unifying action, this was not wholesale, the possession of a paper vote will not solve it. and in any case only gave coherence to the It is a biological subject, sociological, identities ‘suffragist’ and later ‘suffragette’. physiological, eugenic …’2 ‘Feminist’ remained quite opaque; the Given that Victorian and Edwardian anti- discourse as a whole was not one that writers feminism touched upon so many revealing or readers could ‘take for granted’. Writers areas of cultural and political discourse, why who wrote as feminists (or whom we have have these kinds of sources not prompted retrospectively described as feminist) much historical interest? Anti-feminism has frequently did not see the totality of their work been assumed to be a realm of reactionary as summed up as ‘feminist’. They often used preservation of the status quo. In reality, it other frames of reference or sources of was as diverse as feminism, and as identity to structure their work – identities culturally revealing of the way in which such as Quaker, Radical, Individualist, gender organised society and politics. While Socialist, Modernist, Theosophist. anti-feminism could be bigoted, offensive Historians must be careful not to over- and anti-intellectual, it could also be radical privilege this particular identity merely MUSEUM OF LONDON and sophisticated. Its sources span a wide because it has tended to be cast as a powerful, range, including penny postcards, cinema overarching political commitment by late comedy and melodrama, journals and twentieth century historians. As the King’s pamphlets, parliamentary proceedings and symposium made clear, on close examination, literature, with contributions from all kinds one can see the ‘polarised’ positions of of political perspective. Edwardian feminist and anti-feminist as Anti-feminism existed among Edwardian overlapping and influencing each other. socialists, Marxists, Fabians, populists, Email Lucy Delap with comments please: liberals, imperialists, and so on. The range [email protected], or respond to of sources is sometimes surprising, because [email protected] the divide between ‘progressive’ and ‘reactionary’ has come to be assumed to map 1. Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, 1928, p. 57. A commercially produced anti-suffragette postcard from onto the feminist/anti-feminist division. 2. Harrison, ‘The New Sesames and Lilies’, The English c.1909, in the Museum of But in reality, such dualities have not been Review,Feb 1912, p. 487.

London’s Suffrage Collection easy to apply. Some who opposed the 3. Lovat, Nineteenth Century, July 1908, p. 69. and anti-feminism feminism edwardian | 9 Books by Ashok V. Desai (1956) Antony Wood (1950) members The Price of Onions Pushkin: The Bridegroom Penguin Books India, 1999 and other verse narratives The Price of Onions Angel, 2002, £14.95 and £7.95 is an accessible Antony Wood has translated three introduction to narrative poems by Pushkin, all various aspects of bearing some relation to the theme the Indian economy of marriage. “Everybody knows from the how difficult Pushkin’s poems are perspective of an to translate …These three informed economic charming narrative poems, so observer, once delightful to read in Russian, are close to the heart of Indian economic for the first time a real pleasure to policy-making. Drawing on extensive read in English too.” John Bayley, knowledge of the practical workings of author of Pushkin: A Comparative Indian markets, set within a framework Commentary.Praise has come from of basic economic principles, Desai Oliver Ready in the TLS,“… a discusses recent Indian commodity price superb, crystalline rendering of fluctuations – including the infamous “The Tale of the Golden Cockerel”, 1998 increase in the price of onions – which is attentive to lexical and and analyses the sources and rhythmical repetition and shape in implications of rising standards of its sparse imagery.” Boyd Tonkin, in Antony Wood is the founder of Angel living, recent developments in the The Independent writes, “Antony Wood Books, which celebrated its twentieth mechanics of production, and how deserves a vodka toast for his witty and anniversary last year, and is devoted to these two phenomena are combining to nimble translations of three Pushkin new translations of classic foreign re-shape the modern Indian economy. verse tales.” literature. The book is particularly good on how government policy in its various forms – particularly the wide-ranging Bridget Strevens-Marzo (1975) imposition of quotas, price controls, Kiss, Kiss! subsidies and duties – has distorted markets, prices and overall economic Little Hare, 2003, £8.99 development in India. Full of engaging “One day, when Baby Hippo woke up, he insights and asides, the book is a was in such a rush to go and play that he valuable and highly readable overview of forgot to give his mum a kiss.” We follow today’s modern Indian economy. him as he happily explores the texture Ashok Desai was advisor to the and variety of the African landscape, full Finance Minister of the Narasimha Rao of affectionate elephants, lions and government in the early 1990s. zebras. Suddenly all their fond kissing reminds him just what it is he’s forgotten to do. He dashes back, increasingly anxious – only to find Mum has vanished. It’s all right, though, she’s only playing Peekaboo! – temporarily Charles Barr (1958) the cinema. Though it seems to be submerged. Margaret Wild’s text and Vertigo Hitchcock’s most personal film, Bridget Strevens-Marzo’s charming and Charles Barr argues that, like Citizen expressive illustrations show the close BFI Film Classics, 2002 Kane, Vertigo is a triumph not so much bond between parent and child with In the 1992 of individual authorship as of creative gentle humour. Perfect for exploring Sight and collaboration. Barr documents the those early separation anxieties. crucial role of screenwriters Alec Coppel Sound poll, Bridget Strevens-Marzo teaches art in and Samuel Taylor and, by a critics and Paris, and organised life classes at the combination of textual and contextual film-makers King’s Art Centre. analysis, explores the reasons why voted Vertigo www.bridgetstrevens.com the fourth Vertigo has come to exert such a We are featuring the work of greatest film continuing fascination both on general Jan Pienkowski (1954), creator of the of all time. audiences and on a wide range of critics Meg and Mog books, in the next issue. Released and theorists. King’s Parade would like to hear from any in 1958, Charles Barr is Professor of Film at the other King’s members involved in Hitchcock’s masterpiece is a pinnacle of University of East Anglia.

books by members children’s books. | 10 Martin Rees (1969) benefit. He concern, in our interlinked world, to Books by Our Final Century asserts that focus public policies on communities “the odds are who feel aggrieved or are most fellows William Heinemann, 2003, £17.99. no better than vulnerable”. “Our Final Century is one The theme of this book is that humanity 50–50 that our of the most provocative and unsettling is more at risk than at any earlier phase present books I have read for many years, in its history,” writes Rees in his preface. civilisation on and its prophecies of imminent doom Chapters, which can be read almost Earth will are far more threatening than even independently, deal with the arms race, survive to the the most apocalyptic science fiction,” novel technologies, environmental crises, end of the writes J G Ballard (1947) in the Daily extreme risks, and prospects for life present century”, and on the website at Telegraph. www.longbets.com he has also staked a beyond the Earth. He explores the Professor Sir Martin Rees will be Master thousand dollars on the following downsides of unpredictable science and of Trinity College from January 2004. prediction. “By 2020, bioterror or bioerror runaway technology, and hopes the book www.edge.org will lead to one million casualties in a will stimulate discussion on how to guard www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IoA/staff/mjr/ against the worst risks while deploying single event.” This perspective, in his new knowledge optimally for human view, “should strengthen everyone’s Alan Macfarlane (1971) and Caroline Humphrey (1978) Strategies beyond the Law, and Iris Macfarlane Rethinking Personhood. The essays The Unmaking of Soviet Life: Green Gold: The Empire of Tea Everyday Economies after demystify the sensational topics of mafia, barter, bribery, and the new Ebury, 2003, £12.99. Socialism shamanism by locating them in the Dedicated to “the Cornell University Press, 2002, lived experiences of a wide range of people who will subjects. “One of the virtues of £14.95. never read this book, Humphrey’s book is that the words the tea labourers of “This book aims to convey something ‘democracy’ and ‘capitalism’ – so Assam,” Green Gold of the great range of cultural ways of enthusiastically invoked by Western tells the fascinating being and doing in the post-Soviet commentators in the early years of story of tea, the world, from Moscow through Siberia to Russia’s ‘transition’ – are used “world’s greatest Mongolia,” writes Humphrey in her sparingly,” London Review of Books. addiction” and one introduction. Trained in social These stimulating essays include of the most powerful social and economic anthropology, she made her first trip to “Icebergs,” Barter and the Mafia in forces known to man. From its first use by eastern Siberia in 1967. The Unmaking Provincial Russia (1991), The Villas of monks in fourth century BC as an aid of Soviet Life brings together ten the “New Russians” (1998) and to meditation, tea is now consumed in essays, written between 1991 and Shamans in the City (1999). quantities which easily equal all the other 2000, under the headings: Politics of “… anyone talking to a large number manufactured drinks (coffee, fizzy and Locality in an Unstable State, of people in Russia would understand alcoholic drinks) put together; in Britain that living through a alone we drink 165 million cups a day. process of cruel Originally marketed as a medicine, tea “unmaking” of an inspired some of the earliest trade routes, accustomed way of life at prompted the development – and caused the same time sharpens the ruin of – empires in India and the East the will to profit and became the symbol of nineteenth personally and sensitises century British imperialism, destroyed at the moral faculty,” Boston. Its caffeine motivated workers and, Humphrey writes, adding Macfarlane argues, tea’s medicinal that “the everyday properties and the use of clean boiled economies of Russia are a water in its preparation have “thwarted site of ethical choices, disease and allowed urban development.” and from this some new, The authors give voice to the stories of the possibly more benign men and women whose lives were changed arrangements are bound out of all recognition through contact with to emerge.” this “deceptively innocent green leaf”. Alan Winner of the 2002 Heldt Macfarlane was born in Assam and Iris, his Prize given by the mother, is a tea planter’s widow. “Her Association for Women in account of conditions endured by the poor Slavic Studies. Caroline Indian tea-workers … makes a magnificent Humphrey is Professor of first chapter.” Financial Times. Asian Anthropology. Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Social books by fellows

Anthropology. | 11 Orientalism and Modernism In June 2004 King’s College will hold an international three-day conference on ‘Orientalism and Modernism’. The conference will explore a variety of cross-cultural and inter-artistic projects of key modernist figures and groups including Ezra Pound, Bloomsbury, Franz Kafka, Bertholt Brecht, , Lao She and Elias Canetti. The conference organiser, Junior Research Fellow Dr Judith Green (2002), explains.

European and American It is especially appropriate that King’s Modernism has drawn on should organize a conference on this theme, East Asian culture as the role played by the College in throughout the twentieth developing interactions of Modernist and century, especially in the East Asian culture is part of the history that movements of the first this conference addresses. The half of the twentieth accompanying article by Patricia Laurence century often referred to gives a flavour of these connections. as High Modernism. The Members of the College who are included in products of these cross- this particular history of cross-cultural cultural engagements, engagement include Arthur Waley (1907), Qian (1942), Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (1881), Xu Zhimo (1921), Julian A journalist and writer, Xiao Bell (1927), Chun-Chan Yeh (1945) and Qian translated James Joyce’s Dadie Rylands (1921). An exhibition of into Chinese (with his college archive material on the conference wife, Wen Jieruo), just before themes will be on display in the library his death in 1999. Xiao’s during the conference period. collection of letters to E.M. Speakers will include Zhaoming Qian, Forster, Friendship’s Gazette, author of Orientalism and Modernism: The which he copied before he left Legacy of China in Pound and Williams and for China, are now in the Pound, Moore, Stevens: The Modernist Response Modern Archives of King’s. to Chinese Art, Rolf Goebel, author of Forster’s letters to Xiao were Constructing China: Kafka’s Orientalist destroyed during the Cultural Discourse and Patricia Laurence, author of Revolution. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism,and China. Haun Saussy of Xiao Qian (1942). Photograph taken in March 1984 and sent to Dadie Rylands translations and Stanford University will speak on the impact appropriations can be on European theatre of performances by the seen in artistic practices ranging from poetry famed Chinese actor Mei Lanfang, through and pottery, through dramatic and musical the reactions of Bertholt Brecht (‘the performance, to visual art and the novel. In alienation effect’) and Sergei Eisenstein the same period Modernism was central to (cinematographic ‘ideogram’). Zhang Longxi, artistic practice and intellectual debates in of City University , will focus on orientalism and modernism

| East Asia. the anti-traditionalism of modern Chinese 12 writers such as Lu Xun and Hu Shih, beyond that to make a space for genuine revisiting Lu Xun’s many comments on the intellectual interchange and development of charge of yanghua (becoming foreignized). ideas across disciplines and cultural Bert Winther-Tamaki, of the University of boundaries. Although organising events of California at Irvine, will talk on questions of this scale is time-consuming, and requires a foreignness and modernity in Japanese Yôga significant financial commitment from the (oil) painting of the early twentieth century. College, the intellectual rewards are Scholar-practitioners invited to speak include immense, both for the College and the Edmund de Waal, acclaimed potter and wider intellectual community. I’m delighted expert on the history and aesthetic to have the opportunity to put on this development of modern pottery, and Roy international conference, close to my own Howat (1971), internationally renowned field of research and also continuing an pianist and expert on Debussy. important part of the College tradition. One of the great qualities of King’s is For further information contact: Xu Zhimo (1921) being able provide a forum for the [email protected] dissemination of research, but also going

Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism drawn – as his British mentors were – to the Lily and China traces the romance of Julian Bell (1927), intellectual and artistic possibilities of another nephew of Virginia Woolf and son of Vanessa Bell, culture. Cambridge was peace to him: an escape from and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while the turbulent period of the warlords and post- Briscoe’s teaching at Wuhan University in China, 1935–37. Republican cultural conflicts between traditionalists Using a wide variety of previously unpublished and iconoclasts in China. writings, I have placed Ling, often referred to as the E.M. Forster also had a friendship with Xiao Qian Chinese Katherine Mansfield, squarely in the Chinese who was a student at King’s in 1942. A journalist and Bloomsbury constellation. In addition, I expand my writer, he translated James Joyce’s Ulysses into examination of Bell and Ling’s relationship into a Chinese (with his wife, Wen Jieruo), just before his Eyes study of parallel literary communities – Bloomsbury death in 1999. Xiao’s collection of letters to E.M. in England and the Crescent Moon group in China. Forster, Friendship’s Gazette,which he copied before Underscoring the reciprocal influences between Patricia Laurence,ofCity he left for China, are now in the Modern Archives of these groups, I present conversations among well- King’s. Forster’s letters to Xiao were destroyed University, New York, known British and Chinese writers, artists and during the . These writings, as researched her forthcoming intellectuals. Among them are several Kingsmen who well as the correspondence of Julian Bell and actually or imaginatively ventured to China in the book Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Vanessa Bell, and Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf early part of the century. Bloomsbury, with Ling Shuhua, illuminate what Partha Chatterjee articulates as “the practices in the inner spaces of Modernism and University of South community … the sphere of the intimate … what Carolina Press, 2003. China in the truly matters in the life of the nation”. $59.95 College While many critics agree that modernism is a Archive, and movement that crosses national boundaries, literary For example, I sketch studies rarely reflect such a view. In this critical study, lets us have a conversations between however, the unpublished letters and documents, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, glimpse cultural artefacts, art, literature and people are linked a King’s Fellow and historian into the King’s in ways that provide illumination from a comparative who travelled to China in cultural and aesthetic perspective. Geographical and connections in 1910–11, and Xu Zhimo, the critical imbalances and thus the architecture of well-known and flamboyant the book. modernism, postcolonial, Bloomsbury and Asian Chinese poet who was a studies are addressed – by placing China in an research student at King’s from aesthetic matrix of developing international 1921–22. Dickinson wrote to modernism. Despite the self-contained character of Roger Fry from a temple in China in the early twentieth century, and the difficulty China: “Dear Podge, I feel so at of communication and travel, the British looked to home. I think I must have been China, as did Lily Briscoe with her “Chinese eyes”, to The individuals on the book cover a Chinaman once.” Xu Zhimo create new mappings in cultural and aesthetic space. include bottom left to right: was tutored in English Bertrand and Dora Russell, literature at King’s by both I would like to thank the archivists Ms. Jacky Cox Yang Bu-wei (wife of Zhao Yuan Ren); Dickinson and Dadie Rylands, (now Deputy Keeper of the University Archives), and top, left to right, Ling Shuhua, and had life-long friendships Dr Ros Moad of the Modern Archives at King’s, Chen Yuan (Ling’s husband), Zhao Yuan Ren (mathematician, with H.G. Wells, Roger Fry and whose expert assistance and hospitality over the

composer, linguist) Bertrand Russell. Xu was years of my research on the book enhanced my stays. orientalism and modernism | 13 A

This year’s event was a tremendous success. All thanks to Angela Reeves in the Development Office and Nigel Bulmer, Honorary Secretary of KCA, for their superb organisation. Congratulations also to Jason KCA lunch Waterfield, Head of Catering at King’s, for planning a superbly colourful lunch, and many plaudits to the charming 21 June 2003 serving staff. Everyone appreciated A. New KCA Director, Caroline Davidson (1972) Professor Bateson’s generosity in B. Provost Patrick Bateson and Dusha Bateson inviting the attendees to have drinks in C. Richard Wainwright (1987) and friends the delightful Provost’s garden. Dr John D. Jake Lushington (1986) and friends Barber took small groups to visit the E. David Haselgrove (1966) and David Calvert-Smith (1964) roof of the Chapel and there was an B exhibition of manuscripts and drawings relating to the Bloomsbury group. But there is always room for improvement, for innovation and for extending traditions, and this year attendees were invited to contact me after the lunch with suggestions. Here are some of their proposals for practical improvements in organisation, and suggestions for extending the scope of the occasion. • Extend the reception drinks time. C • Seat all people from a particular decade at the same table. • Provide more information on name badges. • Encourage King’s members to stay in College. • Consider having a crèche. • ‘Blitz’ a particular decade or two each year. • Move the lunch to another date; there is so much going on in June. • Invite King’s members to give talks about distinguished former members of the College • Enable lunch attendees to attend a ‘singing on the river’ event or Evensong conducted by the water. The KCA committee will be considering these suggestions carefully in advance of next year’s lunch. lunch

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15 | in short College his phone kept ringing and he a great difference to how students The new skilfully matched chapter and feel as they struggle, perhaps, to news verse with volunteers for the achieve what is expected of them chaplain months ahead. His inaugural Port at Cambridge. He’s warm and and Cheese party for Freshers had welcoming – witty and refreshing. Richard Lloyd gone rather well, and he was fully He’s also continuing a recent Morgan has expecting students to engage tradition of holding a Compline – joined King’s with him, any day now, on topics based Wednesday evening as Chaplain, a such as the irrelevance of religion. meditation at 9.00 pm in the role he takes “My role is to be here and talk to Chapel, offering people a chance up in addition people, to listen, identify what to end their day quietly, letting go to his more their needs are and help if I can.” of the business of the day. operatic ones. Richard He’s come “The Chapel is one of the very This summer Richard performed Lloyd-Morgan from St great places. I love to take people with Opera Holland Park; in Paul’s, Clapham, where he has in there, simply to wonder at it – January 2002 he sang the title role been a non-stipendiary priest. that’s an experience of God.” in Peter Maxwell-Davies’ latest When I met him at the very start Richard feels strongly that opera, “Mr Emmet Takes A of the new term he was suffering participating in ritual, be it Walk”, and next year he will be in from excess admin. In addition to carrying a candle as an acolyte or Amsterdam with Vivier’s the pastoral work, it’s his job to reading a lesson, can open the “Kopernickus” – a work that find a regular supply of readers door to a community, and that breaks many operatic moulds and for Chapel services: as we talked this sense of belonging can make is sung in an invented language.

Wallach, who was Senior Tutor until Full details of CMI’s activities can be 2002, has special responsibilities for the found on its website at student exchange part of the programme. www.cambridge-mit.org. Under this programme, Cambridge and MIT students reading the same subject David Good (1988) swap places for an entire year, and the work they do at the other institution is credited towards their degree. So far, the Opera exchange is open to students from Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Première Chemistry, Materials Science, King’s & the Cambridge Mathematics, Physics, Economics and Rowland Moseley (2002), in his MIT Institute Medicine. second year at King’s reading Music, has had his opera Music for a Friend Simon Barker (2000) and Joy Summer 2002–03 saw Joy Sumner (2000), premièred in Cambridge. This is a (2000), the first King’s students to go a Materials Science student, and major achievement for an to MIT with the exchange programme Simon Barker (2000), an Engineering undergraduate. Set in the present day, The Cambridge MIT Institute (CMI) was student, go to MIT while their places in it revolves around a composer about founded in summer 2000, as a result of the College were taken by Tina Shih and to celebrate his sixtieth birthday – an initiative by the UK Treasury. MIT Bo Zhao, who were both actively involved with ambiguous feelings about his (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Music in the College. Simon and success and doubts about his is renowned for its beneficial impact on Joy are now back for their final year faithfulness to the dreams of youth. In the US economy, and Gordon Brown, as and in an excellent position to appreciate 2002, Rowland’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, was keen to the strengths of the two systems. symphonic work, bring that effect to the UK. The mission As Joy observes, “MIT gave me greater Aperçus de of CMI is to develop programmes of confidence in my ability to research and l’Etoile du Matin, research and education, based experiment, whereas Cambridge places was premièred concurrently at Cambridge and MIT, more emphasis on the theoretical in Paris, which experiment with ways in which side of things.” Simon found this too, performed by British universities might come to have and was also delighted, as he says, the City of something like the MIT effect on the with how “students at MIT are Leeds Youth British economy. encouraged to join research projects very Orchestra. early in their education.” In 2003–04, He also King’s has been involved in CMI from the Tammy Poon and Cindy Jao from MIT composed beginning. David Good, a Fellow in SPS are with us while Chris Zagorski (2001) Fanfare for the New Provost, performed since 1988, was appointed as Education and Anthony Tse (2002) spend a year in October to welcome Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas to King’s. college news Director in November 2000, and Rob at MIT. | 16 NANCY MYLES two years. during thelast made donations friends who have members and tothank opportunity ga held on12July Summer Party The Development Party Summer Development agr.When Iwas encouraged school to bymy dangers. Thishasits and isseekingtoreassure them. concerned aboutitsimage intheindependentsector –that King’s appears tosuggest the interview is emphasis inKing’s recruitment –re-emphasised in Imust offer dissentfrom my thecurrent However, Admission Tutors. areconfident they jobas doinganexcellent both from timeasanundergraduate my andamvery Iremember them Zeeman andRosanna Omitowoju. I was very interested withNicky toread theinterview Admissions Letter ve

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17 | college news Development King’s is still legacies and if that doesn’t multiply by a learning how to factor of between four and ten over the next news tackle the five years I’d be very surprised. As long, that monumental task of is, as the College continues with its raising enough campaign to persuade people. money to maintain The focus of activity for both the Chapel its outstanding Foundation and the Development Committee academic tradition, is using contacts, getting people to do specific Tony Doggart its Choir and its things and hence raising money. We seek Chapel. I’ve been involved in the learning commitment from everyone round the table process for over a decade. 1997 stands out to make agreed approaches, which are then as a milestone. With the appointment of followed up by the Development Office. We Tess Adkins as full time Head of can then track progress at our next meeting. Development, we moved on from the set-up It’s an unbureaucratic process; it’s simply phase with external consultants to the involving people with people, and the office College taking on Development in-house. keeps the score. The increased focus on Learning That was a key change. It meant that the particular objectives for fundraising has been College for the first time accepted the need critical in seeking large gifts. Last year we to have the internal resources to look after raised money for the Garden Hostel, this year curve its own financial destiny. That change can’t it’s been King’s Parade: and many people are be underestimated. Today, fundraising is reacting positively. part of the mainstream of College life. The overall message is straightforward. Tony Doggart The next milestone was in 1998. In that The College has too small an endowment. year, again for the first time, we persuaded The income from the £80m that it has still (1958) has just the Development Committee, and Tess results in a deficit of over £500,000 a year, persuaded the College, to take on a full time just to run the College on an existing-state retired as Chairman Development Officer: Matthew Mellor. basis without any of the capital expenditure Within eighteen months he and the which needs tackling. We need to relieve of the King’s Development Office as a whole were able the College of as many expenses as we can, conclusively to demonstrate that they were particularly the Chapel maintenance and Development more than covering their costs. The Choir – which go way beyond the normal achievement there was the buy-in of the scope of a college’s activities. Committee. He Fellowship and the College’s commitment to But you can’t raise money through bits of having a professional Development Office. paper – however good they are. They’re looks back at some The same year saw the setting up of the sales aids – not closing tools. Fundraising is Chapel Foundation. That was when the about people. It’s about sitting down with aspects of the College recognised that we have two target people, talking to them either individually markets. Firstly, external people who have or in groups. Which is why the increased development no previous connection with King’s, but for involvement of activists is key, it’s why the whom the Chapel and the Choir are symbols increased involvement of the Fellowship is learning curve and of excellence in architecture and choral key, and why the active role played by the music. Secondly, non-resident Kingsmen – Provost is key. Because if we just wait for outlines his reasons and the responsibility for spearheading that the world to beat a path to our door – effort was given to what is now the spurred on by bits of paper – we will wait for optimism for Development Committee. The College took for ever. another huge step in saying “this is a sales I’ve enjoyed hugely interacting with the future. job, and we have to identify our markets and people in the College as well as with our create a structure which is attuned to that.” external supporters. But committee Since then I’m delighted to see the members need to rotate. I’ve nearly run out progress within the Development Office of of easy contacts I can put pressure on! a hugely improved database – infrastructure Someone new coming in has a whole new achievement number one. Achievement two address book and list of people to call. is the vast increase in the number of people Jeffrey Wilkinson, who came up in 1951, is actively involved in pushing the King’s the right person to do that. message. You only have to look at the list of people, whether as members of the A classicist and lawyer, Tony practised as a barrister Development Committee, as patrons, or as before joining Save and Prosper Group to become year representatives, to see the snowball Sales and Marketing Director and later Finance which is beginning to grow. Director. He worked as Chief Executive of Robert The third achievement is the greater focus Fleming Asset Management companies in Hong on legacies. It’s long term but it’s already Kong and Luxembourg before becoming Finance

development news development starting. This year we’ve had £1 million of Director of Robert Fleming Investment Bank. | 18 King’s Parade Re-Development The College is re-developing the properties it owns on King’s Parade to provide accommodation for students and Fellows. Numbers 13–22 form the greater part of the best-known and most important domestic street front in the City.

The buildings are all Grade 1 listed but had apparently worn the same tweed king’s parade re-development project and the entire façade of the block will jacket for twenty years and picked up bent be retained. On ground floor level, nails in the street for household repairs. Mr the retail units, being the established Reddaway’s nephew, who last year asked the use, continue to provide the best courts to confiscate his uncle’s H-reg car in investment and will be retained. All the interests of public safety, said the size of the student accommodation will have the estate had surprised the family. ensuite WC/shower, and flats will be If you are considering leaving a legacy to King’s, self-contained. The opening up of the or have already done so but not told us, please rear of the block and installation of a contact me at the Development Office. first floor podium will create All enquiries are handled in complete confidence. individual access to each house, Deborah Loveluck, Development Office, provide daylight to the back of the King’s College, Cambridge, CB2 1ST properties, a courtyard area for Tel: 01223 331322. common use and fire escape routes. Nicholas and Judith Goodison have Year representatives started the fundraising ball rolling Twenty-six members from a range of years with their magnificent gift of a room attended a meeting in London with John in the King’s Parade development. Barber, Deborah Loveluck and Nancy Myles The College is delighted and looks forward in October to consider their role, hear about to naming the room when the project is the College’s financial situation and plan completed next spring. Honorary Fellow future activities. Part of their role is to keep Nicholas Goodison (1955) said, “We are very their friends informed about College reunions and events and A King’s Parade redevelopment encourage them to attend. scheme, by Chamberlin Powell and They also use their own Bon, considered in the 60s networks to help King’s keep its database updated. They will now meet twice yearly, and it was agreed that a coordinating committee be formed to pleased to make possible the refurbishment meet quarterly. John Barber said that he of a room on King’s Parade. It is essential saw the Year Representatives as a for the College to enlarge and improve its ‘Parliament of Non-Resident Members’ to accommodation for students and Fellows so provide the Development Office with advice that it can remain competitive.” and support, as well as feedback about how King’s is perceived by its members. The cost of refurbishing each residential room is £75,000, and there are opportunities for donors to Year Representatives are still needed for the name a room, flat or house. following matriculation years: 1945, 46, 47, 53, 58, 67, 68, 71, 81, 96, 98, 99 and 2000. Legacy makes the news If you would like to find out more about the role, Henry Reddaway (1928) has left King’s a please contact: generous £300,000 legacy. Mr Reddaway, John Barber in the Development Office who had been a schoolteacher and 01223 331313, or by email translator, and worked for the Control [email protected] Commission for Germany between 1945 and 1950, spoke eight languages. News On-line giving reports in August made much of the fact It is now possible to make donations on-line development news development Henry Reddaway (1928) that he left a total of £3.5 million in his will through the King’s website. | 19 Events 2004 Prize crossword Devoto

Friday 13 February This puzzle can be completed without Provost’s Seminar specialist College knowledge. Those who Wednesday 17 March pay attention to the fabric of King’s will, Choir Concert however, note that – numbering 9 14 in the St John’s Smith Square, London obvious fashion – the fifth, sixth, seventh 7.30pm and eighth are the work of 15 25; the Rachmaninoff Liturgy of fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth and St John Chrysostom eighteenth are due to 18 13; and the Box Office 020 7222 1061 twentieth through to the twenty-fourth are by 1d 17 22. 1d 1a 12 is responsible for Wednesday 24 March part of the first (formerly the tenth); 32 2nd Foundation Lunch Years and 8 for the nineteenth and twenty-fifth; 1947–1952 and 4a 31 originated the first, the fourth By invitation and much else besides. Saturday 10 April Easter Saturday Concert A bottle of King’s College Claret (to be King’s College Chapel collected) for the first correct entry opened on 1 February. Entries to the Editor. Wednesday 28 April Year Representatives’ Meeting Across Down Saturday 26 June 1 Bilge churned out by 1 Symbol of England, swallow swallows symbol Garden Party arty-sounding accomplice of 1d (7) of England (6) Years 1965–1974 4 Just him, bearing a pound by return of post (7) 2 Austen’s principal point: man to graduate (4) Saturday 10 July 7 Alternatively, handle new models displayed on 3 Dogged across counties, all over the place (9) KCA lunch mantelpiece (9) 4 Carve-up at new junction did not transpire (4,1) KCCA 10th anniversary dinner 9 Look, listen – it’s a flight component (5) 5 More (so people say) in minimal essentials (4) Saturday 17 July 11 Touring musicians’ means of transport? (4) 6 Clapped-out spare part in a heap (8) Development Summer Party 12 Literary romancer’s national identity sounded (5) 8 Berkeley singer could be in for a windy evening? By invitation 13 Illustrious swimmer, born with appropriate podal (11) Sat 25–Sun 26 September adaptation (4) 10 Computer gamer’s boon: with new start, alter Non-Residents’ Weekend & 16 What a philatelist does, or a railway buff if axe falls (2, 5, 4) Reunion Dinner departing? (5, 3) 14 Checks out – might be hopeless (5) 1975–1978 18 Martin, perhaps, is like Tony but shorter (5) 15 Setter, second after Jack, the first; the second Friday 12 November 20 Childminders unendingly required for orphan (5) (and seventh) preceded the third 4a Provost’s Seminar 21 Let into lakes, shivering and emaciated (8) 17 Liberated Germany’s admitted, at top of the 23 See 22d heap, a Great Prussian (9) For further information about Choir 24 About, in time, to form a consensus (5) 19 With subordinate outside, flash around supply concerts and events see our website at of ready money (8) www.kings.cam.ac.uk 26 Write with this, or pointless nib’s back (4) 29 Light that is contained for lazers (3-2) 22, 23a Publisher’s note, read aloud, strangely Procession for Advent 30 Could be blushing profusely by house of authoritative (6, 4) Alumni are entitled to 2 tickets every 4 correction (9) 25 Big-up the Stateside scientist, a years, on a first-come-first-served basis 31 DNA investigator gains, without me, fifty thermodynamicist (5) from 1 October each year. Apply to the thousand (7) 27 Soldier, one not among the pros (4) Chapel Secretary in writing or by email: 28 List of Jack’s dietary requirements (4) [email protected] 32 End up with a point, in the solution, giving Oswald’s mark (7) Solution in next issue

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