21 OCTOBER 1949, Page 16

Flow Many judes?

Sta,—Dr. Thomson's letter is a valuable warning, and for me a well- deserved correction. I ought to have made it plain that I was only speaking, and as he points out could only speak, of my own college. But I was not making a mere guess nor was the figure derived from the source that he suggests. It represents something like the average pro- portion for this college during the past three years. But no doubt very many of the dozen had applied or would apply elsewhere.—Yours, &c.,