21 NOVEMBER 1941, Page 4

The University of Cambridge will make history on a minor

scale on Sunday, for on that day the University Sermon will be preached, for the first time for three centuries, by a Free Churchman. Not quite for the first time ever, for in the fifties of the seventeenth century a former undergraduate of Sidney Sussex, named Cromwell, filled the University pulpit and a great many others with Dissenters. But it is, I believe, the fact that when Dr. Elmslie, Principal of Westminster College (the Presbyterian training college at Cambridge), ascends the pulpit at Great St. Mary's on November 23rd, it will be the first time its stairs have been trodden by non-Anglican feet at a University