4 AUGUST 1939, Page 6

One of the attractions at the Liberal Summer School at

Cambridge this week is stated in the daily Press to be " an expedition to Grantchester." This is very disturbing. In- trepidity is always admirable, but Liberal life and limb should not be thus recklessly risked. Grantchester is all three miles from Cambridge, and there is at least one spot there where the river is almost out of the average Liberal's depth. No doubt the expedition will officially give that a wide berth, but Liberals are notoriously prone to stray. Whoever the leader in this wild enterprise may be, he will, I hope. abandon such mad hazards in time and substitute a pleasant walk along the Madingley Road ; you can come home by Coton,—or could.

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