To Porterhouse College, Cambridge, famous for rowing, low academic
standards. and a proud cuisine, comes a new Master, an ex-grammar-school
boy, demanding Firsts, women students, a self-service canteen, and a
slot-machine for contraceptives. There is considerable opposition to
this challenge to the established order, in the form of Skullion, the
intransigent porter at Porterhouse, who is determined that the hallowed
traditions of the College will never change.