Nonsensical Eden
SIR.—May I add a slight correction and a comment to the delightful review, by Dr. H. W. Garrod, of University Slang in your issue of March 31st? The Rev. (and Hon.) Talbot Rice (well remembered by my parishioners with affection), was not Rector of St. Peter-in-the-East, but of St. Peter-le-Bailey ; (hence " Bagger," the first vowel being significant). This city rectorship is now held jointly -with the mastership of St. Peter's Hall.
As for the sobriquet to which he refers—" Pots Hall"—I have to admit that the title of " Pot-Hall" may not infrequently be heard on the lips of the more callow members of this and of other colleges—on the towpath, or the touchline, for example. 1 presume that this is an echo of the term " Pot-House " which, when I was a Cambridge under- graduate, I often heard applied to our venerable Petrine sister at that university. I am not, however, much in love with either of these
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