Reeling Registries This is the very season, of course, when
the academic rat-race spins convulsively to a tem- porary stop around the humming heads of uni- versity registrars. The registrars have been over- whelmed by long-distance telephone calls from disgruntled parents, hopeful that their pleas and protests will somehow conjure up the places that their offspring have been denied. One assistant registrar I know has had a new experience: an approach from a Member of Parliament saying that although he didn't know Miss X, he knew her father well (one of his constituents), and he was perfectly sure that the girl would be a good student and was worthy of a place, and that he hoped that her position would be reconsidered, etc. Is this, says my acquaintance, the first sign of a new trend? If all disgruntled parents were to enlist their MP's support, what a pres- sure group that would be.
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