Following your story about dogs being dogs and cats being dogs but tortoises being insects (Feedback, 11 December 2004), I would like to draw your attention to a piece of Cambridge folklore.
Some years ago there were several married undergraduates at Cambridge, and on discovering that "many of their wives were lonely" Launcelot Fleming, then dean of Trinity Hall, arranged a tea party in his rooms so that the wives could meet each other. However, several had to turn down the invitation as prams and babies were not allowed into the college. In order to solve the problem, the college authorities called the babies "honorary cats".
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