Alongside its regular daytime students there were also evening students for whom teaching was duplicated. In addition, as part of the University of London, the school offered its curriculum and courses to corresponding students throughout Britain and the Empire. Arnold Plant also ran a well-funded Commerce Degree Bureau that coordinated distance learning though the circulation of teaching materials and the marking of student essays by LSE staff. The school’s pedagogic reach was therefore far greater than that of Oxford, Cambridge, or even Manchester and was aimed at a wider constituency.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 402