16 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 16

SIR,—There is yet one more source of professors than those

mentioned so far in the letters you have had on this matter. I refer to the island of Jersey. When Victoria College was founded in 1865, the statutes provided for two Professorships of Mathematics and of Modern Languages. It is also true that I held the former " chair " from January, 1908 to July, 1912. I am glad to realise that there is still left in the world a little old-world courtesy ; for both in Jersey, which I visit from time to time, and in this club, where I spend a good deal of time, I am known as " Professor," and even am introduced to strangers by this title.

Real professors will not like this intrusion on their sacred preserves by Gresham College and Jersey ; but custom dies hard, and courtesy still