11 AUGUST 1973, page 5

Sir: What An Admirable Letter From The Regius Professor Of

Greek at Oxford, on Hugh Trevor-Roper's presidential address to the Joint Association of Classical teachers — and how wellbalanced. It brought to mind the saying, "To Christ we......

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P .S. In a recent issue, Benny Green wrote about "No Latin and less Greek ' (interesting but possibly with tongue in cheek). Has he any comments about Hugh Trevor-Roper?......

Will ' Waspe, With Charactermisplaced Venom, States That,...

broadcasting Reginald tkcoldall's Ring from the Coliseum, BBC will " tape the tired old Bay a t version and broadcast it later - suspect, considerably greater He suspects......

Opera Department, Bbc, London Wi Will Waspe Writes: I Am

as delighted to learn that the Bayreuth tapes are free as I was surprised when their availability was mentioned as an excuse for not taking the Coliseum cycle when the matter......

Clockwork Orange

Sir: David Hume and, apparently, W. J. Spring, to judge from his article in the July 14 issue, are of the opinion that constant conjunction constitutes a causal. However, the......

Food Prices

Sir: Our Central Committee naturally keeps a weather eye on food trading. We suggest, with all due respect to a senior citizen, that G. Haydn Jones (Letters, July 28) does not.......

Football Standards

Sin The quality of English Association football is currently the worst in its long history. The truth is that football has become largely a lost art, and consequently this great......

Facts And Pr6ofs

Sir: Martin Sullivan's article on ' Sym. bol and reality' (Society Today, August 4) requires some comment. First, there is a great difference between the discoveries of......

Cathars Of Languedoc

Sir: Ian Meadows' article on the Cathars or Albigenses (July 21) with its melange of astrology, dark suggestions of great Cathar secrets greedily hoarded by the Vatican (a......