Four distinguished young men. Oxford undergraduates—or at least. the sons of four well known fathers motoring back to Oxford from Seeing the Cesarevitch, crashed into a lorry at Tiddington, at two o'clock in the morning and' were more or less severely hurt, They were the /Hon, Peter Wood, son of Lord Halifax: Mr, W. D. Ormsby-Gore, son the Coloniat Secretary: the Hon. Muah Fraser. brother and heir pre-imp tive to Lord Lovat: and the Won, J. Astor. son of Lord and Lady 'Astor. Hitherto these young men have been commonly regarded as the finest flower of that type of Youna' Oxford which takes itself more nously than Archbishops do, cons-dous of immense destinies to full. So it is rather refreshing to find them doing anything so human as to aland flagrantly break Uni-les by motoring after 11 p.m.
The climax of the story is thi Lady Astor referring to the. accident a speech at Reading said "T think it Is a ease not of boys will be hoys Wut of boys will be idiots, They hhadl a very lucky escape."
Bul the moral of the story surely that undergraduates, while in sidence, should not bz allowed t6 keep motor cars, Both at Oxford and Cambride this' question has lately been much under review, The settling results of being able to off creat distances and return late at night usually at top speed so as te bbe in before college sates close. are very evident and afler all the theory fof being at the university, i sth bupilari, is to. be in university. In presmotoring days absences could only be taken occasionally on spect eave which have now become. with the aid of the ear, an every-day affair.
In connection with university affairs, "The Times" yesterday "gave fu interesting account of the colour decoration of the lovely old Tudor gateway of St. John's College. Camhhridge, which was founded by Henry Vil's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort in IS11-16. The gate ix built of beautiful rose-coloured bricks with dressings of golden Barnake stone, and ornamented with abundant sculpture, the anns of the foundress. Tudor roses and so forth.
There is evidence from the cellose olds as recently as the 18th ceniry that the carvings were coloured and gilded, and when the gate was
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