IF devoted toil for a most laudable end were the
sole qualification for a review the President of Queens' would deserve little less than a whole issue of the Spectator. For he has set himself, and is methodically,, discharging, no less formidable a task than the production of a Who's Who of all known graduates and students of the University of Cambridge from the earliest times to 1900. Invaluable though such a compilation is, it must by the nature of things be unreviewable. Let it be recorded that the first entry in this particular volume (which covers the years 1752 to 1900 and the letters K to 0) is of one Carl Friedrich, Selmar Kahlenberg, who was admitted a pensioner of St. John's in 1870, that on the same page figures an engaging Abdeali Mohamedali Kajiji, of Downing, and that the volume reaches its climax in Aide Guy Oyler, who was admitted at St. Catharine's in 1896 and subsequently took to teaching (in which he may still be engaged)—let that be recorded and much like it, and all that can be said is said, except, once more, that by his tireless prosecution of this most meritorious of enterprises the President has earned the unstinted gratitude of all Cam- bridge men, and many others.
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