31 AUGUST 1951, Page 4

Reprimanded though I have been, and no doubt rightly, for

too frequent mention in this column of a university with which I have had some association, I will at least venture to suggest that a certain seat of learning which I will not specify, and in particular a certain college which I will not identify, have rendered no inconsiderable national iervice in demonstrating, at Henley; on the Housatonic and Charles Rivers, and how, last week-end at Macon, that in one field of sport, rowing, this decadent country can more than hold its own against all comers.

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