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Campus baseball
• I WAS reminded of Stanford University’s 8,180-acre campus, in California, where I studied, when I read the letter about the one-and-three-quarter-acre Golden Lane Campus, in Finsbury, housing a three-school complex (Honour Milton, March 21).
I’ve not heard that Golden Lane is a university, but why not? The government said recently it wants 17 more. A Lilliputian size should be no obstacle for the 420 children aged 3 to 11 soon to be there.
The headmistress of the main school, Prior Weston, could be the university president, as at Stanford and elsewhere in the US, and the heads of Richard Cloudesley Special School and Fortune Park Early Years Centre the vice-presidents.
The heads of subjects could be the professors of English, arithmetic, geography and art.
These chairs could be named for people famous locally. There could be the Milton Professorship of English, as poet John Milton lived and is buried nearby; the Babbage Professorship of Arithmetic as Charles Babbage invented the computer and stood for Parliament three times in Finsbury; and the Caslon Professorship of Art as William Caslon’s type foundry was in nearby Chiswell Street for 171 years and there’s a plaque there.
Caslon was buried in St Luke’s, Old Street. His famous typeface, Caslon, was used for the US Declaration of Independence and is still in use.
The council’s head of education, Councillor Ursula Woolley, could perhaps inaugurate the new university with the Woolley Oration at the April 22 opening.
The students should, of course, all sport mortar boards and there could be gridiron and baseball teams.
DERMOT RYAN
Whitecross Street, EC1
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