14 NOVEMBER 1868, Page 3

The students in several Colleges in Cambridge have struck .against

the cooks. They say their dinners are bad and dear, and that the cause of both defects is the custom of considering the cook a permanent College officer, irremovable by those he feeds. In Sydney College the students struck, retiring as soon as grace was said, and the authorities have agreed to look into the matter. Prices must, we fancy, be fixed from above, but why not allow a mixed committee of Fellows and undergraduates to dismiss the cook? Would that bring in a flood of atheism, ending in the downfall of Church and State ?