OXFORD EXCHANGE

The average collegian nurses a desire to spend his summers abroad, going places and seeing things. Realizing this, the Canadian Government and the Canadian Pacific Railway have cooperated in inviting Oxford students to Canada in order that they may see England's American colony and also help harvest the Dominion's wheat crop.

This plan, combining the pleasures of travel, out of door labor and economy, is excellent and if it proves practicable it might well be extended. Such an arrangement could, of course, be concluded only on the grounds that no laboring men are deprived of work, for however essential travel may be to a college student, a paying job is an even greater necessity to the laborer.

All in all the project is extremely worthy: Oxford men will have the opportunity of seeing Canada from a point of view much different from that of the usual tourist; the Canadians will be aided in the great harvest--and they may come to think of a university as capable of producing something more than charming idlers; and the very delicate bonds between the two countries will be cemented by this personal embassy. International politics can do no more.