LAUGHTER HELPS VISITORS GET OFF TO FLYING START

"In the Garden of Eden all animals were given tails but men were left to form their own conclusions."

Such was J. D. Woodruff's opening remark in the Harvard-Oxford debate last night thereby giving his audience food for considerable thought, G. H. O. Scaife, the visitors' closing speaker, got off to an almost equally good start:

"Our chief function in coming to America", he said, "is to forge one more link in the chain binding Harvard and Oxford together, but above all to convince the Harvard team of the error of its ways."