16 SEPTEMBER 1949, Page 16

" UNDERGRADUATE SPATE"

Sra,—I have before me the plans of a group of 50 boys "graduating" in the class of 1949 of a well-known private (in England, public) school in New England. Qn graduation day the announcement was made that 42 had enrolled in a university, that five others were entering universities but had made no specific choice, leaving only three going into business. I was a pupil at the school, " graduating " in 1908. Under fifty per cent. of us went- to a university.—Yours faithfully, R. A. BURROWS. Chaim Dene, Lime Avenue, Duffield, Derby.'