BRASENOSE COLLEGE.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] think that all Brasenose men will be grateful to you for publishing, and to "B. N. C." for writing, the letter in the Spectator of March 25th. Your review of Mr. Buchan's book was certainly somewhat disparaging to a College which takes its place (not the least), and always has taken its place, in the University life of Oxford. I revisited Brasenose recently after an absence of seventeen years spent in Australia, where things change rapidly, and not always for the better, and I found the College changed, doubtless, outwardly, but with the same manly, upright, sportsmanlike tone amongst its members as in the days of Dr. Cradock. Conservative, perhaps, and sui generis. Is there any harm in that? The class lists show that it might be invidious to compare Brase- nose in the Schools with many other Colleges. Brasenose men north of the Tweed—and they are many—will adapt this Falkirk motto, and explain it to their brethren south, less fortunate, " Touch ane, touch all." " Better medde with the deil than the bairns of — — Brasenose."—I am, Sir, dre., 13 Leadenhall Street, March 28th. ROBERT BAILLIE.
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