15 NOVEMBER 1963, Page 16

THE SPLIT SOCIETY

SIR,—Mr. Davenport's strictures on the two nations seemed to me to be most relevant to the corre- spondence on the Robbins Report which followed them in your issue of November 8. Apart from the acquisition of wealth, the only bridge between the two nations appears to be higher education, and this may be the reason why laymen attach so much importance to the equality of opportunity which can only be given by expansion. Fast expansion may not be in the best interests of the academic standards of the universities, but the social consequences are,

I suggest, even more important. c. E. C. WOOLLEY Church Farm, Lyminster, Littlehampion. Sussex