My mother got a double first in medical school | Short letters

One baby during my medical studies 50 years ago (Letters, February 9)? That’s nothing. In 1947 St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School admitted female students for the first time. My mother, Ann Dally, was one of three women admitted. By the time she qualified in 1953, she had two children. She found work at a non-teaching hospital, where the hours were less demanding than at a teaching hospital. The consultant there sympathized with working mothers, but still said: “If the baby gets the measles, you can’t get time off.”
Emma Dally
London

As for music in restaurants (Letters, February 6), a possible strategy is one I tried over breakfast in a Sheffield hotel – the loud dance music was so unbearable that I told the waiter that if he didn’t turn the music down or turned off, I would show him my dance moves. He took off, almost at a sprint, and turned it off.
Mary Gameson (66¾ years)
Norwich

The motto of Winchester College is “Manners makyth man”. It seems his expensive education has been wasted on our Prime Minister (Sunak refuses to apologize to Brianna Ghey’s father over PMQ’s trans jibe, February 8).
Christopher Point
Barnstaple, Devon

When I started playing hockey at Lincoln Imps in 1984, bullying was long a thing of the past (Quick Crossword, February 8). Hockey is a great social sport. Your compiler is doing it wrong.
Pol Llwynfedwen
Aberhonddu, Powys

Referring to the statue on the far left of the photo on the letters page in your print edition (February 10), the caption should read: “Is that an icicle in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Gordon Williams
Malmesbury, Wiltshire