2 MARCH 1991, Page 17

Unlettered

A reader saw this advertisement in the Guardian: Downing College, Cambridge, invites applications from those who teach in secondary schools for Schoolteacher Fellow Commonerships tenable during the summer of 1991.

The Fellow Commonerships are ten- able for up to five weeks between Monday, July 8, and Saturday, August 10, 1991. The principle [sic] purpose of the Fellow Commonerships are [sic] to enable schoolteachers to spend time in Cambridge to pursue their own studies and to enable them to discuss with officers of the College recent changes in admissions procedures at Cambridge . . . . If you have an example of a crass, illiterate, ignorant, irrelevant or embar- rassing letter or notice from a company or public body, send a copy to Unlet- tered, The Spectator, 56 Doughty Street, London WC1N 2LL; L10 for each one printed.