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WARDE FOWLER, like Arthur Sidgwick, was one of the men we can least spare—a classical scholar of distinction and a writer of great charm who sympathised warmly with the aims and methods of science, and strove to give them a larger place in the life of his University. It would scarcely be possible to gain a clearer insight into the strength and weakness of an Oxford education as it was nearly twenty years ago than by reading his “Oxford Correspondence of 1903” (Blackwell, Oxford; Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London) between a college tutor and one of his pupils whose eyes are opened to the meaning of research by meeting a Zurich Professor in the Long Vacation. Warde Fowler's opinions and the long experience on which they were based appear in the charming letters of the tutor. We owe it to him and many others like him in this respect that the years since 1903 have brought a steady growth in the amount of original work and in the significance attached to it by the University.
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P., E. William Warde Fowler. 1847–1921. Nature 107, 528–529 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107528a0
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