Besides provoking an authoritative record of a celebrated but misinterpreted episode in Russell's eventful academic career, this document contains interesting evidence about attitudes to pacifism in the First World War and in particular about the sympathies of such distinguished colleagues and contemporaries of Russell as Cornford, Housman, McTaggart and Whitehead.
G. H. Hardy's 1942 account of the expulsion of Bertrand Russell from Trinity College, Cambridge due to the publication of material which opposed the First World War.
