• Cambridge is on June 7th (after earlier in the
day installing its new Chancellor, Lord Tedder) conferring honorary degrees on the usual company of distinguished people, among them General Omar Bradley. What gives me, and will give many other people, much pleasure is the inclusion of Miss Rose Macaulay, who will on the day in question become a Doctor of Letters, honoris causa. No one writing today has manifested less desire for recognition, and very few have so amply deserved it. Quite apart from the entertainment her novels have provided, her more serious works, like her discussion of Some Religious Elements in English Literature, her historical They Went to Portugal, and her small books on Milton and E. M. Forster, abundantly justify the distinction which Cambridge is conferring on one who, though educated at Oxford, is essentially of Cam- bridge origin.
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