10 DECEMBER 1904, Page 14

SIR,—Will you allow me to correct a small misstatement in

your article "The Undergraduate" in the Spectator of

December 3rd ? You say : "It is unfortunate that beautiful maidens do not often fall into the Cherwell, and that even if they did it would be easy for them to walk to the bank." In the summer term four years ago a friend and myself rescued a young lady and an undergraduate who had upset from their Canadian canoe in the Cherwell close to the mill by Mesopotamia. Neither of them could swim, and the stream there is 12 ft. deep, as we could tell from the punt-pole 17 ft. long that we were using. I am not aware whether the sequel proved any less prosaic than the

event.—I am, Sir, &c., A FORMER UNDERGRADUATE.