30 SEPTEMBER 1949, page 16

Pa,---1 Read With Some Surprise Mr. Pickthom's...

ional Youth in the Spectator of September 9th. I, too, was one of the ten thousand young people in Budapest, but, no doubt because I am finable to boast of eyes as " reactionary......

Mediation By Grace

SIR, —Mr. Hussey says: " In St. John xx. 23 we read Our Lord's words to the eleven Apostles." St. John does not use the word "Apostles," but "Disciples" (Mathetae), a more......

Time-tables

SIR,— Reading C. H. Lewis's article on time-tables I feel that I can console him and others, for his experience in time-table construction could have been even worse. Until a......

Young Visitors To Budapest

SIR,—Accordin g to Mr. Mayer in the Spectator of September 16th, "Charles Pickthorn infers that the National Union of Students was un-. aware, beforehand, of the political......

Health Insurance Payments

SIR, —In the autumn of last year I asked a dressmaker, who works hard in a " one-woman " business, if she had had the holiday of which she looked in need. Her reply was that now......

What Is A Don ?

Six,—May I, as a humble undergraduate, be permitted to express strong disagreement with Janus's revised definition of a university " don " ? There is a certain prestige and......

The Merits Of Metric

SIR, —In your issue of August 12th Strix referred to a matter connected with the sale of some of his pigs weighed in " score," and I have just read news in another publication......

Recollecting The Webbs

offer a footnote to your review of Mrs. Cole's symposium on pcatrice and Sidney Webb. It comes from the campaign conducted by the Webbs forty-odd years ago to expound the......