Cambridge University has lost a very distinctive and popular personality
by the death of Sir Arthur Shipley, the Master of Christ's. He began studying zoology under Balfour and Sedgwick at a time when the Cambridge School of zoological research was renowned all over Europe. He did not become known to a wide public till in the War he published those humorous but scien- tifically exact volumes, The Minor Horrors of War and More Minor Horrors. He had been elected to the Mastership of Christ's by a small majority, but it is safe to say that the minority never had any cause to regret their defeat. The manner in which he made his college, and also helped to make the university of which he was Vice-Chancellor during the War, fit into the nation's schemes was an invaluable patriotic work. He had a happy knack of getting things done partly by keeping people amused.
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