11 DECEMBER 1920, Page 3

Undoubtedly some people would like to screw up the standard

cf intellectual attainment and ultimately to crowd out the Pass Man altogether. Personally, we should regard such a development as deplorable. The Pass Man builds up his charac- ter at Cambridge and receives an education—again to distinguish education from instruction—which is invaluable to him after- wards as a man of affairs or a a public servant. Nevertheless, we cannot believe that the full admission of women would have any dire results. The event is always much better than the anticipations of the pessimist. The figures show in what direct. tion Cambridge is moving. and we take the final success of women to be mievitab!e. We should not be surprised if some half-was or three-quarter way scheme were shortly introduced.