The supply of university teachers is limited and cannot be
increased quickly. The only channels from which reinforcements could be drawn are the schools, but the schools will not be able to spare their best-qualified teachers, or indeed any teachers. In the last war the nupber of young Fellows of colleges killed in action was even higher than in most professions. For various reasons, there is some hope that in this war the losses fnay be less terrible, but already they are severe. Apart from losses in action, the junior and " middle " teaching staffs in the faculties of arts are being depleted to fill vacancies caused by death or retirement (at the age of 65 or over) in the professoriate. A good many of the younger university teachers are doing administrative work which will not come to an end for two years, or longer, after the war. Some of these men and women may stay in Government service.
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