On the entertaining correspondence in The Times on the paucity
of Cambridge men on the episcopal bench I have only one observation to make. It seems so far to have occurred to no one that one reason—and not at all a bad reason—for making a man a bishop is the belief that he will be a good bishop, regardless of his choice of university. The well-known preference of the Almighty for university men was never, so far as I know, carried to the point of differentiation between the two older universities. If it . had been, the palm (in view of the authorship of the phrase) would no doubt have fallen to " that meagre nursery for sickly minds in Oxfordshire." Meanwhile, the world's debased standard of values being what it is, most Cambridge men would, I am afraid, rather have 29 points at Twickenham than 29 bishops on the bench.
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