CURFEW SHALL NOT RING IN CAMBRIDGE FOR YARDLINGS

A threatened invaston of a Yardling's traditional right to walk the streets of Cambridge at all hours of the night came to naught yesterday when reports in the Boston press that the new curfew law would apply to all children 16 or under were dented by city officials.

The city ordinance in question, which has been periodically enforced since it was first passed in 1898, provides that all children under 16 (not 16 or under) must be off the streets by 9:30 o'clock. The ruling will affect only the four Freshmen who have not yet reached their sixteenth birthdays.

As originally interpreted, the curfew law would have put a clamper on noctural excursions for nearly 40 16-year-old Yardlings.