30 NOVEMBER 1974, page 6

Co-residents At Oxford

Sir The present experiment in co-residence between the sexes at five Oxford colleges constitutes a wholly unacceptable threat to the traditional pattern of an Oxford education.......

Country Houses

Sir: Mr Magnusson . (November 16) would do well to bear in mind the privileged of today who are - not only absolved from fines but from the whole mechanism of the legal system.......

Liberals In Ireland

From Mrs H. Quinn Sir: As a Liberal I have certainly heard a great deal about the part Liberals played M bringing up the matter of civil rights in Northern Ireland. However,......

Beethoven's Parentage

Sir: I was sorry to see that in his 'Spectator's Notebook' (November 9) Rupert Croft-Cooke was ready to circulate once again an old canard about Beethoven's parents even if he......