Whether The Archery Contest Between Oxford And Cambridge...
excited more passionate interest if it had taken place at Oxford than it did at Cambridge is a matter of speculation. It could hardly, at any rate, have had a more ideal......
The Wisden Lunch Is Old News Now, But It Was
too late for mention here last week. It attracted a galaxy of cricketers out of flannels and elicited some extremely good speaking from Mr. Oliver Lyttelton, who comes of a......
Light On Building
T HE past few weeks should have seen a great clarification of the public mind on the subject of British building. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his Budget......
Possibly Not Everyone Noticed An Entry In The " In
Memoriam " column of last Friday's Times (between " West " and " Pritchard''). It ran: QUEEN ANNE BOLEYN.—The Martyr Queen of England, beheaded May 19, 1536. - The Gospel Light......
When I Assumed Last Week That, Since The Organisation For
Economic Co-operation had recommended that member countries should fix the allowance for tourists at the equivalent of 150 dollars, tourists would now get £53 instead of £50 I......
A Spectator's Notebook
T HERE should be a strong demand for reconsideration of the proposed increase in railway meal prices. A Cambridge college charges i s. 6d. for a breakfast fully equal in quality......
In Spite Of A Letter In Last Week's Spectator, I
remain unconvinced that Derbyshire Education Committee is justified in spending £17,000 in the purchase of a mansion to be used as a school for rock-climbers. It is clear from......
The 1950 Who's Who, 1 Observe, Costs 85s. To Persons
in my position that sounds a lot, but there are those who would gladly part with 850s. rather than miss Who's Who. The main value of the volume no doubt is practical ; it is......
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