C. D. Broad (1887-1971) The air-raid defence organisation of the College was created and run with consummate ability by my colleague Andrew Gow, whose achievement confirmed me in the generalisation which I made long ago, viz., that a first-rate classical scholar can usually do a first-rate job at almost anything that he puts his hand to.

(C. D. Broad, "Autobiography," in The Philosophy of C. D. Broad, ed. Paul Arthur Schilpp, The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 10 [New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1959], 1-68, at 63 [essay written in 1954])