2 Growing Pains, 1917-39 'It is, I believe, destined to be the first School of Oriental Studies in the world.' Sir John Hewett, first Chairman of the Governing Body, 22 June 1916 '... each year on the present financial basis involves a... nearer approach to ultimate crisis.' Report of the Senate of the University on the School, 1928 'The School is half-starved.' H. L. Eason, Principal of the University of London, May 1938