28 JANUARY 1938, Page 6

I am chidden (quite deservedly, as usual) for describim - , as

" provincial " universities other than Oxford and Cam- bridge. I have seen other people do it, but that, admittedly, is no defence. But how are you to distinguish them ? Why. it may be asked, should you ? Well, very often you want to. not because Oxford and Cambridge are necessarily superior to the others—call them decadent, unpractical, reactionary, what you will—but because they are different. What, then,