Boys next door
Sir: Poor Alan Watkins (Diary, 9 October) must have suffered an unusually flaccid or frustrated time at Cambridge in the carly Fifties: 'accounted a sexual triumph if a girl accepted an invitation to tea, even more of one if she turned up.'
He should have been there a touch earli- er, or at another College.
Those of us licentious soldiery, freshly demobbed, who fell on Cambridge in the late Forties had things wonderfully differ- ent. Rooms in Trinity Great Court and in the streets surrounding resounded regularly to merry couplings.
Was Mr Watkins' time the only no-go period in University history?
But I see he was at Queen's. Ah well. Trinity men, ex-soldiers with skills of all sorts, were made of more successful stuff, perhaps?
Ivor Herbert
Regal Hongkong Hotel, 88 Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
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