ABSTRACT
Not everyone looks upon politics as a genuine academic pursuit, but the creation of a new chair in the subject is a reliable sign that doubts about its credentials are gradually being dispelled and that its authenticity is gaining wider recognition. My several months in Swansea have convinced me that it will find at this College fertile soil for steady growth and development. And for this the credit must largely go to the Principal and to Mr. Frank Stacey: to the Principal because he knows from his own experience and from the example of the late Lord Lindsay what a systematic training in politics can do for the young mind, and to Mr. Stacey for showing how the subject can be fruitfully allied with disciplines that differ from it substantially in both content and method.
