2 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 5

Rather in the same field I must, I think, yield

an inch or two about Professors, who according to the dictionary mean holders of chairs at universities. They do exist, and are so described, at university colleges. Should they be ? That is a nice question on which I have no intention of pronouncing. It might be argued that professors should be confined to institutions which have the power to confer degrees. But it might equally, no doubt, be argued otherwise.