25 MAY 1951, page 4

It Is All To The Good That The Historic Buildings

in and around London (or indeed elsewhere) should be called into service for ceremonial purposes, and it was no doubt no more than an undesigned, and probably unnoticed,......

Sir Frederick Maurice Had A Long And Varied Career. From

D.M.I. (Director of Military Intelligence) at the War Office to Principalship of the Working Men's College at St. Pancras, with which his grandfather Frederick Denison Maurice......

In His Book, How To Win The War, Published This

week, Mr. Paul Hoffman remarks that armaments do not spring into being ready-made "like Minerva from the head of Job." From the tale of the patriarch's sufferings as recounted......

_ Do The Deans Differ?

I T is bald to see how the State Department at Washington can disavow Mr. Dean Rusk without discarding him. That is the State Department's affair, or the President's—at any rate......

A Spectator's Notebook

A NY journal, even a journal of comment like the Spectator, likes to be first with the news. It has been left to the Hon. Edward Martin, Senator from Pennsylvania, to vindicate......

That Merton Should Have Gone Head Of The River At

Oxford for the first time deserves special notice, if only because Merton's history is longer than that of any other college at Oxford or Cambridge. Merton was founded in 1264,......

• Cambridge Is On June 7th (after Earlier In The

day installing its new Chancellor, Lord Tedder) conferring honorary degrees on the usual company of distinguished people, among them General Omar Bradley. What gives me, and......