21 MARCH 1891, Page 14

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY AND ITS TOWNSMEN..

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"]

SIE,—What you say of young townsmen not taking advan- tage of the facilities 'for taking a degree offered by the University, may possibly lie true of Oxford, but is not true at all of Cambridge. Here it rather is the rule that in every fairly prosperous tradesman's family, some of the sons go through their course and obtain their degree. In about one house in every four in my own little parish, some member of the family has been or is a member of the University.—I am,.

Sir, &c., AN OLD RESIDENT IN CAMBRIDGE.