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THERE can be no doubt that the British Association, adaptable though it is to various environments, is most at home in an academic setting. This year's meeting in Cambridge ought, therefore, to be unusually happy, and the preliminary programme just issued affords prospects of this by more than one implication. Thirteen of the colleges—in addition to Emmanuel, where the secretariat will be housed—offer men the chance to return for a short space to the pleasures of college life ; Cheshunt College will be open for women, and other houses (including Girton) will accommodate both sexes. In addition to the University reception in the Senate House and Old Schools, conversaziones, pleasantly specified as 'informal', are announced in Trinity and St. John's, and the Mayor and Mayoress of Cambridge must surely be introducing a new and welcome feature into British Association programmes by inviting members to a sherry party, to be held in Emmanuel. It is to be hoped that the unusually early date of the meeting, August 17–24, dictated as it is by the convenience of the colleges and other authorities, will not dismay any of those who contemplate being present: it may be recalled in this connexion that the last Cambridge meeting, in 1904, took place at exactly the same time, but had nevertheless an attendance of 2,789, a figure far above the average for that period.
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Cambridge Meeting of the British Association. Nature 141, 719–720 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141719a0
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