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I HAVE read with great interest the recent correspondence in the Times on science in scholarship examinations and the comments upon it in the leading article in NATURE of Mar. 28. I should like to present a point of view rather different from any which have hitherto been put forward and to support it by a number of facts which, in my opinion, have not yet received the attention which they deserve. I believe that the science specialist at school does devote a reasonable amount of time to literary subjects and does leave school with a satisfactory interest in literary culture, whereas the humanist devotes little or no time to the study of science and leaves school with an attitude of condescension towards it, which savours of intellectual snobbery and does little credit to the type of education which he has adopted.
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BARTON, A. University Entrance Scholarships for Science. Nature 127, 628 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127628a0
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