The annual meeting was held at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge on 21 and 22 March.

PROGRAMME

Friday 21 March

3pm                 Committee Meeting

4.15pm           Business Meeting

4.30pm          Madame de Sévigné: literature and/or letters?, Dr Nicholas Hammond (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

7.30pm          Conference Dinner

9pm                  Grammar and Language Teaching, Professor Martin Durrell (University of Manchester)

Martin Durrell was Professor of German at the University of Manchester when he addressed this meeting of the Oliver Prior Society. He is now Professor Emeritus at Manchester. 

Saturday 22 March

9.30am            Language Contact and Historical Linguistics, Kimberley Farrar (Newnham College, Cambridge)

11.30am          What’s Happening to the Tripos?: the Origins, Nature, and Progress of Reforms, Dr Philip Ford (Clare College, Cambridge)