18 JUNE 1932, Page 17

" HUMANUM EST ERRARE "

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sin,—As it is probable that I took my degree before your Oxford Correspondent was born, I trust that you and he will not take offence if I venture to plead that we may be spared such expressions as Greener and Giler—in a high class literary weekly. For years we have suffered in silence from those appalling words Rugger and Soccer. But what is Greener, and why ? And as for Giler ! Ilorresco referens !—Yours more