15The Founding Of The Oxford Socratic Club'
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THE FOUNDING OF THE OXFORD SOCRATIC CLUB'
LIKE A QUIETLY EFFICIENT NURSE ARRIVING IN A HOUSE CONfused by illness, or like the new general arriving at the siege of Ismail in Byron's Don Juan, our Chairman"
broke in (if she will pardon the word) during the autumn of 1941 on that welter of discussion which even in war-time makes up fiveeighths of the night life of the Oxford undergraduate. By stages which must have been very swift (for I cannot remember them), we found that a new society had been formed, that it was attempting the difficult programme of meeting once a week,'
There had been plenty of organizations that were explicitly Christian-the S.C.M.,'
the Ark,-'
the O.U.C.H.,G
the O.I.C.C.U.'-