An unusual feature of Oxford and Cambridge this term is
the married undergraduate. He was not quite an unknown phenomenon before the war, but now he forms quite an appreciable percentage, perhaps 7 or 8 per cent., of the new entries. That is true of Cambridge at any rate, and I imagine things are much the same at Oxford. How the men and their wives find anywhere to live is something of a mystery, since rooms in college are, of course, ruled out, and the ordinary university lodgings are equally unsuitable, for landladies are not prepared to do for two people in one set of rooms, particularly when one of the two wants most or all of her meals in. There is also the problem of children, for some of the undergraduates are fathers as well as husbands—and of course in consequence nurse- maids. However, after foraging for themselves, for college authori- - ties take no responsibility here, most or all of them do manage to get fixed up somehow. * * * *
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