7 NOVEMBER 1914, Page 27

TRINITY V. MAGDALENE.

[To TH2 EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOP.."1 SIR,—In the story which you quote from his Reminiscences (p. 596 of the last issue) Sir Charles Stanford, as a loyal son of Trinity, omits the sequel to Thompson's sarcasm concern- ing Magdalene in the "seventies." The famous master spoke of it (not as an "Institution," but with more biting phrase) as "the transpontine Refuge for fallen undergraduates." But it did not end there. The epigram was told to Latimer Neville, the then head of Magdalene, whose rejoinder was : "Who said that?" "Thompson of Trinity." "Trinity P Trinity P Oh! yes, I know—you mean the overgrown estab- lishment at the back of Waraker's shop." Waraker was a well-known hosier in Trinity Street.—I am, Sir, &c.,