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riding talent may be blazing along to get the lead. 

 The Rev. Cecil Legard was another who took a 

 sporting, as well as a clerical, degree at Cambridge. 

 The list of masters of hounds includes many who 

 rode and played polo when at the Varsity, the best 

 of schools for horseman- 

 ship, foremost being Mr. 

 J . Maunsell Richardson, 

 for some time master of 

 the Brocklesby during 

 the minority of the Earl 

 of Yarborough. Then 

 there was Mr. C. B. E. 

 Wright, who held three 

 or four masterships, in- 

 cluding the Badsworth 

 and Fitzwilliam ; Mr. 

 Roland Hunt, master of the Wheatland ; Mr. C. D. 

 Seymour, for many years master of the West Norfolk ; 

 Earl Fitzwilham, who hunts the Went worth and the 

 Grove, when Lord Milton was a keen competitor at 

 Cottenham, his grey mare Mary, as good a hunter as 

 ever looked through a bridle, winning more than 

 once. The Hon. Lancelot Lowther was another of 

 the riding division from Trinity who has since ably 

 filled the post of deputy-master to the Quorn and 

 Cottesmore during his brother the Earl of Lonsdale's 

 masterships. The list of first-class polo players is 

 full of Cambridge talent, including Mr. W. S. Buck- 

 master, who when at the University in the nineties 

 rode brilliantly with the Cambridgeshire and the 

 Fitzwilliam. 



" Oh, for the glamour of youth! " is a quotation 

 from one of the latest novels, but the lament is a 

 vain one, for perpetual youth is to the fore at Cam- 

 bridge ; no matter in what decade we may revisit 



