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Now it seems to me that any class of young men who can be on 

 such terms with the Higher Authority must form a desirable and 

 wholesome element in the world in which they move, even though 

 they be not in the first flight when the Tripos lists come out. In 

 the matter of character the Barbarians have done better than 

 " Bogey." But this is not all. Cotteuham is an " open " meeting and 

 does attract, as the Beagle Master himself said, some " perfectly awful 



H. C. Backhouse (T.F.B.) eides at Cottenham. 

 By "A 1" in T.F.B. C. Book. 



touts." And that a body of very young men, only a year or two 

 removed from schoolboys, should so manage the assembly as to merit 

 the very high compliment conveyed in the above interview, suggests 

 that in years to come they may do the State some service, if not in 

 the Cabinet, yet in the less showy but quite useful public business of 

 their own countryside. Wherefore the University, whose function 

 I take it is as much to send Men into the world, as to pick out a few 

 pundits for home consumption, ought to take up a more interested 

 and encouraging attitude towards the Jesus Lane Barbarians. But 

 it does not : it lias not even a " corporate mind " on the subject ! 



