19 SEPTEMBER 1947, Page 4

A rather elderly professor was chairman of a certain faculty

at a certain university. The reorganisation of the faculty after the war was being discussed. The chairman was conservative, not to say reactionary, in his views,' and aimed principally at stereotyping the old order. "We got on without young men before the war," he observed with his habitual grunt, "we can get on without them after the war." One of the few younger men present leaned forward.

"And during the war, Professor?" he asked ingenuously.