Dear Sir,—In your last editorial, in mentioning the financial burden on students you claim that "little can be done about fees; they are, by comparative standards, moderate."

In my opinion you are wrong. That students should suffer at all from a financial burden is insufferable, because university education is then not attainable by all. Most necessary relief could be afforded by the complete abolition of fees, which in any case only meet a portion of the expenses of the university. The deficit is met by a Government grant. The extra cost to the State if fees were abolished and the university was entirely State supported (as are our schools), would be more than counterbalanced by the immeasurable gains by the community of free university education possible for all.

In order to take a science course a student must pay approximately thirty pounds a year in fees, unless he is fortunate enough to gain a bursary. (This amount allows lecture fees for three subjects, examination fees, and college fee.) This expense is great enough for students whose homes are in the city, but represents a comparatively greater sum for those who must pay the exorbitant amounts asked for lodgings in the cities.

Further, I would point out that the public always sympathetically supports any movement which aims at the extension of free education, so that if the students' executive energetically attacked the matter, then it might meet with considerable success.