Undergraduates, I find, are much the same on both sides of the Atlantic. But there's one great difference; and that is the readiness of the young men on this side to undergo the horrors of journalism, and daily journalism at that. Oxford and Cambridge have each their weekly student paper; but they are modest affairs, edited secretly by a single shamefaced man in his own rooms, printed in some obscure den behind a hotel, and read (or shall I say circulated?) by a few hundred persons.

Here, however, the comic papers of the leading universities have large staffs and special buildings and are generally more elaborate and more widely read. And I must say that they seem to me to be more comic. In particular, they have more artists. At O. and C. there is no dearth of young men who can write--I mean, will write--for the Isis or the Granta, but the number of those who are prepared to draw in public is, as a rule, extremely small. The Harvard Lampoon and the Yale Record seem to be in much better case. The Lampoon, by the way, is so overflowing with merriment that it has built itself a building which actually looks funny, and I was assured that it was intended to look funny, so as to be in character. Ingenious fellows, these architects. . . .

There is considerable competition to enlist in the battalion of editors, and that, too, is a surprising thing. I met a young undergraduate who informed me that he was one of sixty-five competitors for the post of editor. He was undergoing a strenuous ten weeks of trial and emulation, so strenuous that already some forty had fallen out of the race. At Oxford I doubt if you would find six undergraduates who would spend ten minutes competing for the post of editor. In fact, my recollection is that at the close of the academic year, when the editorial chair of the Isis was about to become vacant, the outgoing editor used to prowl about the university vainly beseeching student after student to fill the thing. A man would be anything rather than an editor. A. P. HERBERT of "Punch"   New York Evening Post