The Patent Office

Abstract

When they saw his papers, the examiners -- bywater, macan, richards and bidder -- were shocked. only one of them, bidder, had actually taught housman and none of his other college lecturers was an examiner, although they seem to have been informed of housman{\{}$\backslash$textquoteright{\}}s situation before the results were announced. pollard later recalled that when he went up to oxford for his viva (oral examination), which customarily takes place between the written examination and the announcement of results, he found his examiners bewildered finding themselves compelled …to refuse even a pass to a man who had obtained a first