Letters to the Editor
Oxford Divided T. C. W. &intim Suez P. R. Lane Brechteffekt Aloysius C. Pepper Sydney Smith T. D. M. Martin Country-House Theatricals Hugh Gregor Suburbanity Graham HoUgh OXFORD DIVIDED
SIR,—It may do Mr. Blake some good to vent his ill temper in your columns; I doubt if it does much good to his cause. His grotesque over-estimate of the beauties of Christ Church Meadow and what they will suffer is natural in one whose vision is blurxed by sentiment; of his tasteless rhetoric on the War Memorial Garden the less said the better. But it is the main burden of his article, the attack on the Minister's personal motives, which shows him at his worst. Mr. Sandys, he says, has chosen the worst of all possible roads, abhorrent to University and City alike, in order to gratify his own vanity and ambition. To see ambition in a choice most of all likely to give offence in influential quarters is sheer perversity. The charge of vanity is incomprehensible.
The article does indeed serve one useful purpose: it brings clearly into focus the indifference of Mr. Blake's college to any interest other than its own, to further which 'every possible legal and constitutional device' will be used. It is an unplcasing picture ,that appears: a powerful body seeking loopholes in the law to promote its own ends against the common good.—Yours faithfully, Wadham College, Oxford
T C. W. STINTON
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