The Dons

Abstract

Public sympathy — whether you measure it by last night's cocktail party or this morning's letter columns — has not been noticeably strong towards university dons over the failure of their 15 per cent pay claim and the other passing insults offered them by the Prices and Incomes Board. It is not too hard to see why. A public brought up on the novels of Kingsley Amis and C. P. Snow, with perhaps Rowlandson's cartoons as a visual aid, is naturally going to think of dons as idle, bitchy and overfed. Television appearances add the impression that they are also overpaid.

Citation

Bagnall, N. (1969), "The Dons", Education + Training, Vol. 11 No. 2, pp. 64-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb016090