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Varieties of Worldly Wisdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

C. A. W. Manning
C. A. W. Manning
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London School of Economics
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The English and American ways of life have more than a little in common. Except however when “Rhodes Scholars in reverse,” Englishmen do not “major.” Instead, they “specialize”—a very, very few in International Relations. Some of these do it in London. This article is on what that means.

In cricket—a staple, incidentally, of the English way of life—there are broadly two techniques for bringing a ball to “turn from the off.” One, the less usual, is the “googly.” Fifty years ago it was a rarity indeed. Yet the writer knew in those days a fellow-schoolboy who, bowling googlies, was unaware that not everybody did. To him, they seemed the natural way to have a ball “turn from the off.”

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , January 1957 , pp. 149 - 165
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1957

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1 And, conversely, a student who having based his preparation on the teaching given him found himself, at the examination, unready for questions based on the Syllabus would have no cause to complain, except of course against his teachers, who, like him, should have read the “book of words.”

2 For the wording of the Syllabus, see the Regulations for this Degree published by the University of London.

3 “International Relations,” a “further” subject in the scheme for the Final Honour School of Philosophy, Politics and Economics.

4 The Study of International Relations (New York, 1955), the source for everything here ascribed to Professor Quincy Wright.

5 Cf. my comment in Ivor Jennings, W., ed., Modern Theories of Law, London, 1933, p. 185.Google Scholar

6 Review of Robson, W. A., Great Cities of the World, in Journal of Sociology, VI, No. 4 (December 1955).Google Scholar

7 As mentioned, in particular, at the Third Congress of IPSA at Stockholm, August 1955.

8 Unsigned review of Goodwin, G. L., The University Teaching of International Relations, in Times Educational Supplement, February 15, 1952.Google Scholar

9 A question of interpretation presented by results in a recent summer was whether it was the better candidates who had tended to take Structure, or whether those taking Structure had tended to do well.

10 Cf. UNESCO. Teaching of Social Sciences: Political Science, Paris, 1954, pp. 61–66.Google Scholar

11 Greater London Radius, February 23, 1955, p. 361.