THE WEARING OF THE GREEN

Dispatches from the alien world of English university life are not often of a nature to cause the student at Harvard to bow his head and give thanks for present blessings. Of this kind, however, is the information from Oxford that rules have been put into effect by the University restricting the under-graduate use of automobiles. No freshman is permitted to own a car; an upper classman must get a special license for ownership from the disciplinary authorities of the university. Trips to the English Wellesley are precluded by another regulation which restricts the rental of a car to one hour and the cruising radius of five miles.

Most curious of all is the rule that every car must carry a green light to identify the driver as a student. Such a ruling, it adopted at Harvard, would prevent the law from molesting any of the town as long as the gown was accessible. But a financial panic in Harvard Square would be the result of the auto rental rules, a disaster that would be comparable only to that historic incident in which hundreds lost all but the clothes on their backs the great Valeteria Bubble.