19 APRIL 1940, Page 21

J. A. HOBSON SIR, —Mr. Stanley Unwin does well in your

issue of April r2th to draw attention to the reluctance of English universities to honour pioneers -whose contributions to learning and intellectual progress lie- outside .academic paths. What better -example could be quoted than that of -the- late Havelock-Ellis, a man whose life-long and fruitful devotion to scholarship and whose courageous thought were highly deserving of recogni- tion? The Royal College of Physicians, to their credit, made a tardy tribute to his merits. But no university—to use Mr. Unwin's happy turn of phrase—honoured itself by