A TALE THAT IS . TOLD.
[To THE EDITOR. or rat " SPECTATOS."1 Sine-What you justly call (in your article on the Universities' Commission) the " immortal " rebuke administered to the snobbish mother of a schoolboy is more often, and, I think, more plausibly, attributed to Mr. Walker, of St. Paul's, than to Br. Haig-Brown, of the Charterhouse. A great London day school makes a much better setting for the story than a school in the country. Besides, no story could be more characteristic of the late High Master of St. Paul's. On another occasion, when a lady told him that she hoped her son would win a scholarship at Cambridge, but, for some strange reason, not at Trinity, he reassured her with-the comforting remark that "it was very easy to avoid getting a scholarship at Trinity."
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