SOME COMMENTS ON CAMBRIDGE
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
is perhaps worth while to correct one of Mr. Williams's misconceptions. He says that a large, in some cases a very large, proportion of the holders of scholarships are ex-public- schoolboys, "some of whom probably get preference at interviews."
Scholarships at Cambridge are awarded on a written exam- ination. The papers are marked numerically, and those candidates who get the most marks are offered scholarships by the Colleges at which they have entered. As a rule the examiners have not seen the candidates, and no marks are given for "interviews." If public-schoolboys get scholarships it is because they have earned them, but they only receive the corresponding emoluments if the income of their parents is below a certain figure.
With regard to another contribution which appears in your pages this week, may I ask Mr. Richard Aldington to take Captain Cuttle's advice, overhaul the Catechism for his quotation, and "when found, make• a note of "?—Yours
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