" TA_NTAENE ANIMIS CAELESTIBUS
[TO VIZ EDITOR OF THE " .SeECTATOR."I SIR,—In connection with Mr. Graves's letter in the Spectator of October 22nd, I send you an extract from Gunning's "Reminiscences of Cambridge," published in 1854,—a book 'which abounds in good stories :— " The Tutor, Cardinal Thorp (for so be was always called), was lecturing on the law of Extreme Necessity, which justified a man in disregarding the life of another in order to ensure his own safety. He said : ' Suppose Lowther Yates [the Master of the College, Catharine Hall] and I were struggling in the water for a plank which would not hold two, and that he got possession of it, I should be justified in knocking him off;' and he then added, with great vehemence : D—n him—and I would do it too, without the slightest hesitation ! ' "—Vol. I., p. 18.
It is scarcely necessary to add that the Tutor had an inveterate dislike to the Master of his College.—I am, Sir, &c., B. SNELL. Ashford School, Kent, October 22nd.
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