SIR,—If it is true, as you state in your notes
on "Mr. Low's Degrees," that the title of Professor lapses " with the relinquishment of the Chair to which it is attached," it is presumably inaccurate to accord the title to Dr. Ernest Barker, as you do in the Contents Summary on the front page of your issue of February 12th. If the rule applies to Gilbert Murray it would seem to apply to Ernest Barker, who likewise relin- quished his Chair of Political Science at Cambridge some time ago. Incidentally, can someone tell us whether "Professor " Joad is or is not [(I) The Spectator did not make the announcement regarding "Professor Gilbert Murray " ; it occurred in an advertisement. (2) It should, properly speaking, have been "Dr. Barker." (3) Dr. Joad does not appear as a Professor in books of reference.]
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