What is a Don ?
Six,—May I, as a humble undergraduate, be permitted to express strong disagreement with Janus's revised definition of a university " don " ? There is a certain prestige and dignity belonging to an official fellowship or tutorship which the undergraduate certainly does not feel to extend to a research scholar or lecturer. The fellows and tutors form, as it were, the hierarchy of the college, and it is in this capacity that they arc known as "dons." Do the bells of Magdalen ring out in proclamation of the appointment of a mere lecturer ?
One may refer collectively to all those who sit at high table as " the dons," but individually one would be far more selective in conferring this title of dignity.—Yours faithfully, ANTONY F. BELL. Byeways, Lucastes Road, Haywards Heath.
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