ABSTRACT
The later years of the 1920s were watershed years for statistics. Karl Pearson was approaching the end of his career (he retired in 1933), and some of the older statisticians were not able to cope with the new order. The divisions had been, and were still being, drawn. Yule retired from full-time teaching at Cambridge in 1930, and, writing to Kendall after K.P.’s death in 1936 said, “I feel as though the Karlovingian era has come to an end, and the Piscatorial era which succeeds it is one in which I can play no part” (quoted by Kendall, 1952, p. 157).
