“If your son’s college life will be a pinch to you (you will allow me to speak thus plainly on such a question), send him as an Unattached Student. But here, again, you and he should clearly understand that the life of an unattached student is isolated, and quite unlike the life of the college undergraduate. The only exception to this statement is when an undergraduate migrates, as for various reasons sometimes he is obliged, from his college to the body of the Unattached. His society, being already formed, remains unbroken. I should fancy your choice will lie between New College, Corpus, Paul’s, and Balliol. A scholarship at either means that the scholar is capable, with industry, of gaining the highest honours in his future University examinations. On the whole, I think, I incline to Paul’s. Unfortunately, you have just missed the examination for scholarships. There is, however, an ordinary matriculation examination for commoners in about three weeks’ time. If your son holds a good position in his school, he ought to have no difficulty in passing even at this short notice, for the subjects are those which are read in forms lower than the highest at all schools. I shall be happy to do anything further in the matter for you that I can. He should come prepared for residence, in the event of his passing. The examination begins on the Wednesday after Easter, and will be over in time for successful candidates to ‘come into residence’ with the other men on the following Saturday. You should send an application to the Master of Paul’s at once. I enclose a list of subjects and fees, and am “Yours truly, “PHILIP WODEHOUSE.” “SUBJECTS FOR MATRICULATION AT PAUL’S.[1] “1. Translation from English into Latin prose. “2. Translation into English of an unprepared passage of Attic Greek. “3. Translation of some portion of a Greek and Latin author (to be selected by the candidate), with parsing and general grammar questions. “4. Arithmetic, including Vulgar and Decimal Fractions and Interest. “5. Euclid, Books I. and II.; _or_ Algebra, to Simple Equations. “FEES. “(_a_) To the University at Matriculation 2_l._ 10_s._ “(_b_) To the College, as caution-money 30_l._[2]