Abstract
MR PRESIDENT, I was searching for a literary allusion with which I might start tonight which should, as it were, bridge the two cultures. I could think of nothing better than that phrase in the Phaedo in which Socrates draws attention to the fact that pleasure and pain are almost always inextricably interwoven in human experience. Certainly my feeling at this moment is great pleasure and honour at being asked to do what I am doing; but there is, too, great pain at my own inadequacy. I have, indeed, been wondering why I was asked. Is it as that curious phenomenon, the Vice-Chancellor of a non-existent university? Many of you will be all too familiar with professors who have no students. But a Vice-Chancellor without a university is even more curious. Is it as a schoolmaster?
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