Oxford, Buenos Aires and Chicago are the three most intoxicated districts in the world according to the university's magazine "The Isis." The two cities have no designated reason for their debauchery, but the Oxonian undergraduates drink "from habit." Why "The Isis" should object to this is hard to understand when one realizes that huntsmen dress purely as a matter of habit.

Nevertheless this explanation of bibulousness does not validate the sad state. Oxford has no divisionals, no prohibition to spur it on; they exidently just drink on general principles, and now and then on each other it is hoped. "The Isis" goes into great detail as to the kind of drinkers that oxist at the University. There are those who drink only on Saturday night, and there are those who indulge only after long and arduous physical discipline. This last category the magazine admits quite frankly are "horrid."

If this state of affairs continues the phrase "come down" will have to be modified to the more expressive "fall down," which would be an emphatic come down. But while the admission of "The Isis" is depressing, particularly so because it associates one of the finest educational institutions in England with two of the lowest cities of the world, it is at least enlightening. The reason for the peculiar pronunciation of Magdalene becomes self evident to the veriest dullard.