tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4049457868523161761..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Morley and MeeNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-87675145087279828492013-08-01T15:21:32.920+01:002013-08-01T15:21:32.920+01:00'He had no aptitude for chemistry, mechanics, ...'He had no aptitude for chemistry, mechanics, or geometry, and as an editor he imagined that present-day pupils might have been equally unattracted by these subjects. Hence his disinclination to the use in his publications for the young of technical terms common to most schoolboys of today. Never would he use such words, for example, as “diameter” or “circumference,” but always width, and so many feet or yards round. If a technical term was not familiar to him, he argued, then it might be unfamiliar to thousands of others, both adult and juvenile. The practice had its disadvantages in lack of precision and directness, but Arthur had ever in mind the one who might not know and might be gravelled by technicalities.'<br />From Ernest Bryant's biog of Mee. <br />Lovely word, 'gravelled'...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-54215051747613556602013-08-01T15:16:08.390+01:002013-08-01T15:16:08.390+01:00And indeed the Children's Newspaper, which sta...And indeed the Children's Newspaper, which staggered on to 1965! Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-52036139526393493732013-08-01T13:43:53.365+01:002013-08-01T13:43:53.365+01:00And let us not forget Arthur Mee's mighty Chil...And let us not forget Arthur Mee's mighty Children's Encyclopadia, in twenty (?) volumes - the backbone of my education.Frank Keyhttp://hootingyard.orgnoreply@blogger.com