Education: Let's Not & Say We Did

The Earl of Athlone, great-uncle of Princess Elizabeth, is chancellor of the University of London. Last week, when the University made the Princess an honorary Bachelor of Music, the chancellor felt moved to comment, implicitly, on honorary degrees in general and, explicitly, on the Princess's degree in particular. Had Princess Elizabeth gone to the University, he said, she would have won the sheepskin anyway—"by the somewhat more laborious process of examination."

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