The over and undergraduates
Feb 02, 2021
3 minutes
North of the Fenland village of Cottenham, the flat fields are disrupted by an island of ridges, valleys, ponds and young woodlands. One weekend in December, a heavy fog obscured the landscape. Cars crawled slowly along the surrounding roads, while tractors remained in barns. Yet a passerby could hear the sporadic sound of shotgun fire from the Cambridge University club.
A cadre of students was practising maintained lead on crossers and cutting a line across the path of looping midis. Nearly 20 of them had put down books and lab equipment to pull on boots and caps
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