The writer of the communication, published in another column, gives expression to a complaint which recurs every year whenever a series of popular lectures is thrown open to the general public without any reservation of seats for students.
It does seem unfortunate and unnecessary that students should be obliged to stand or be turned away at interesting lectures, intended principally for them, on account of the thronging in of Cambridge citizens unconnected with the University. If the suggestion made in the communication should be followed, that a certain number of seats at every important lecture should be reserved until five minutes before the lecture begins, many students would often be spared the disappointment of being turned away from crowded lectures or of being obliged to stand.
No one wishes to exclude the Cambridge public. Indeed lecturer and students alike are very glad to have the citizens of Cambridge share as far as possible in the educational privileges of the University. But at lectures intended primarily for the members of the University outsiders should not be allowed, by coming early, to crowd out those who have a prior right to the seats.
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