Going for gold

Alumnus to be proud of no 177 will shortly, if reports of the Goldman Sachs stock flotation are to be believed, be able to pay the tuition fees of more than 90,000 first-year students and buy a Premier League footballer out of the change. In case they don't know, the already tolerably well-endowed St John's College, Cambridge and Balliol, Oxford may be interested to learn that notorious FOG (friend of Gordon, the iron chancellor) Gavyn Davies is among their former students.