Sweet girl graduates
Sir: As an English graduate of a co-educational American university which had, nevertheless, separate halls of residence, I view with horror the notion (Letters, 4, 11, 18 and 25 April) of mixed staircases at Oxbridge. How on earth can one enjoy dressing-gown coffee parties if one is liable to encounter men in pyjamas wandering about the corridors?
Remembering, too, those blissful days when we didn't feel we had to start running the world or remodelling 'moral standards' at the age of eighteen, I cannot help feeling great pity for a generation which has apparently failed to grasp, treasure and use that marvellous brief—un- repeatable—period when one is free both from the disciplines of childhood and from the shackles of earning a living. A selfish outlook, no doubt; yet a short period of pure happiness responsibly used can surely be as educative and c‘entually fruitful as three years of neurotic 'rebellion'?
Elfrida Estcourt Ridge House, Kingston, Lewes, Sussex
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