WHILE sheltering from a downpour on Magdalen Bridge, I read that during the Second World War, the deer in the nearby college’s park were classified as vegetables, so as to avoid them being eaten when meat became scarce, on more than one count, not a particularly logical proposition.

Is the University a law unto itself, living in a world of its own or something of both?

DAVID DIMENT Riverside Court Oxford

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