23 OCTOBER 1982, page 20

The Swiss And The Sdp

Sir: When I read Colin Welch's hilar i°1j3 , 5 diatribe (16 October) against the SPI decentralisation proposals, I could not 1 1 _, wondering how on earth the Swiss ma n gy to......

The Purpose Of Educati I On

Sir: Mr David Taylor's grumbles about Ox- ford (9 October) betray the fact that he misunderstands the purpose of undergraduate life there, as so many people do all over the......

Porn Bore

Sir: Your correspondent D. H. Ca m tt (16 October) sheds a new light c ' A '" I languors of childhood, in dee" por l longueurs. But even with some like ography to help the days......

Going On A Bit

Sir: Perhaps you could inform Mr - -1c ,, o ssi West that Nasenschleimhaut means 1 ! mucous membrane and not nose -0 10 (9 October). Could you, at the same ti t o, inform him......

Sir: In Reply To Mr Langton (letters, 16 Oc' Tober),

I well recall Sir Paul Chambers aP pealing for second-class minds to come to the assistance of British industry in 1965' the year in which I graduated from Oxford. At the time I......

Letters

Private inconvenience Sir: Professor Wain in his article Parson's Displeasure' (16 October) offered a perfect paradigm of someone making a dutiful obeisance to change, whilst......