Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "W. F. R. Hardie" in English language version.
Mr Hardie, when a tutor, turned out many more first-rate philosophers than most, so that his method was certainly-successful; but he was certainly inclined to judicious questioning rather than to imparting information or propagating his own views. One had very little idea what his views were. An essay beginning with a confident assertion of some generality would be greeted with a low, but agonised, moan. One would be required to say what one meant, what were one's grounds, how one would deal with this and that objection. . . . J. O. Urmson, 'W. F. R. Hardie: President 1950-1969', Pelican 1 No 1 (Michaelmas 1969), 4.
1. William Francis Ross (Frank') Hardie (1901-90). Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy. CCC, 1926-50. President 1950-69; IB's philosophy tutor at CCC, and a profound influence on his literary style, as well as his intellectual approach: 'extremely clever, modest, sharp — one couldn't get away with a single piece of rhetoric. however harmless, without explaining exactly what one meant, very clearly. Extremely deflationary; all the same, just and kind' (MI Tape 5).
Grice always emphasised what he saw as his own good fortune in being allocated as tutee to W. F. R. (Frank) Hardie.