12 NOVEMBER 1943, Page 14

" THE OTHER UNIVERSITY "

SIR,—Your correspondent H. W. H. asks " what University besides Oxford and Cambridge has residential colleges of the type of Trinity? " The answer is obvious to Durham men and those adequately informed upon University education. Durham has seven residential colleges (not reckon- ing the great King's College in Newcastle) though of course they are not so large as those of our two southern Universities. I may add, however, that occasionally a Durham College has been known to beat a larger Cambridge College in boating contests.—Yours truly, " DUNELM " (MA. 1894).