Chancing it

摘要

TOURISTS clogging the King's Parade in the historic heart of Cambridge often seem let down by the absence of begowned scholars (students these days tend to wear T-shirts and trainers). Not so on October 15th, when a merry crowd of dons and alumni queued up in robes to cast their votes for a new chancellor of Cambridge University, much to the glee of camera-wielding onlookers.