THE CHANGING FACE OF OXFORD
SIR,—Graduates of all our universities must' have found the article on " The Changing Face of Oxford " most interesting, and especially Dr. Masterman's admission: " if I were asked what was the main change in Oxford . . . I should reply that it was the steady trend towards turning the schools into preparatory courses for specific careers."
The successful turning of the theological school into the Anglican Staff College has been watched by Cambridge, London and the others with amusement and latterly with increasing anxiety. We who are graduates of London feel that knowledge (like the Thames) flows in greater volume and fuller and freer through London than through Oxford.
But we wish the older university well, and hope that she will recover the art of the disinterested pursuit of knowledge.—Yours faithfully,
VICTOR H. BEATON
Rougharn Rectory, Bury St. Edmunds
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