Abstract

The dispute was becoming proverbial. It even threatened to eclipse the famous Pickwickian Controversy. It was all between Dr. Bluff and Dr. Muff: about the civilisa- tion of Lawley Road: whether it was the civilisation of an educational institution or a lunatic asylum. Now, it was not that Dr. Bluff had gone wrong or that Dr. Muff had tumbled into the correct. But the fact was that Dr. Bluff, after years of painstaking effort, both inside the laboratory and outside in the field, had come to a conclusion that Lawley Road should once have been the seat of an ancient, renowned, educational institution, ancient in its tradition and renowned for its achievements.

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