20 JULY 1944, Page 4

A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK S IR RICHARD LIVINGSTONE, who will succeed Sir

David Ross as Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University in October of this year, has done a service in calling attention to the problem with which every university in the country will be faced immediately after the war. This problem affects most seriously the faculties of economics, history, languages (ancient or modern), law, and literature, since, for obvious reasons, work in those branches of study has been cut down more drastically than in the faculties of medicine and the

physical sciences. * * *