12 OCTOBER 1956, Page 18

Sm,—I cannot help feeling some sympathy for Dr. Sharpe, however

small the mercies for which he gives thanks; for Mr. Sandys in his predicament; and for the heads and members of all colleges in the High. But that is at least partly because 1 am myself from a college in the High, although not from one seriously endangered; and for Mr. Stinton, who never was, nor will be, really troubled in the matter, I have no sympathy at all. When one has neither gardens nor really spacious quad- rangles (a definition applying to all lodging houses no less than to my college), the peace and help to thought of the Meadows are very valuable. Mr. Stinton is ill-advised in telling us not to protest at the loss of them.—Yours faithfully,