Sweet girl graduates
Sir: The recent appearance of a history of Girton College (reviewed in your issue of 21 March) is a welcome reminder of the very valu- able contribution made, and being made to the 'Oxbridge' way of life by such delightful all- feminine bastions of a single-sex education.
Its publication is the more timely because rumours are now current in Cambridge that at least three of the men's colleges (King's, Clare and Caius) intend to become coeducational. It is even murmured that King s intends to insti- tute mixed staircases. Serious issues of edu- cational practice and student morality—or, more correctly, the encouragement of student immorality—arc raised by these proposals, upon which he who pays for the universities, the tax- payer, has every right to call the tune. That is why the matter must be brought to the notice of the public—not merely settled in some panelled corner of a Provost's Lodge.
Once known, it is my belief that the British taxpayer will find the proposals of the Cam- bridge integrationists repugnant to his taste and anathema to his reason. - F. A. Down 69 Liberty Road, Glenfield, Leicestershire
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