UNDERGRADUATE WIVES
Sta,—While I enjoyed Mr. Townsend's article on Undergraduate Wives and agree with much he says, my experience of the "official" reception has been different. Perhaps it was because husbands were so ill received when I was nursing during the war that I expected the worst for myself as the wife of an undergraduate, but I have been continually surprised by the kindness shown to me here. I have been (with my children!) to tea with my husband's tutors, and the warden of the college, and have frequently been invited to more official occasions. I see no reason why I should have any right to join university clubs, and feel honoured to have been made welcome at those meetings which my husband attends. I have even been allowed to push my pram through the college gardens— in spite of the notice on the gate.
We have found that the distinction between married and unmarried
undergraduates is as clear as Mr. Townsend suggests, but I feel that this applies to most walks of life, and we fully expect to find our new friends, when we leave Oxfordt;among those who are married, and probably among those with children. Personally I feel very grateful for the three years I have had here, and will remember with pleasure the contact with a great university, whiCti I should not have had in my own right.—Yours faithfully, Runt G. STOBBS. 24 Ridgeway Road, Headington, Oxford.
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