Proctorial restrictions have made inventors of more than one Oxford student. It was nothing original for a member of Christ Church to remove the bolts from his window which faced the street thus providing an easy entrance for all those unfortunates finding themselves outside the walls after midnight, but it did take, if not genius, at least courage to appropriate a lock from the door of one of the local pay lavatories and install the lock on his window. And though the lock functioned for only a penny, some say business was so good that the student managed to pay half of his tuition through this ingenious device. And personally I don't doubt it, for, as the story goes, one night the lock got stuck; and the next morning over a hundred students were before the dean to explain their tardiness and to pay fines ranging from ten shillings to five pounds.

Here at Wadham, where the industrial revolution has as yet not been felt, students do the more manly thing and come over the wall through barbed wire. It isn't unusual to meet a proctor waiting for you on the other side but, as one young Englishman put it, that's the surprise element which though hard on the pocketbook adds much to the sport of the feat.

But soon vacation begins which for the Oxonian means six weeks of uninterrupted study. Some will do it in Munich; others in Paris, St. Moritz or points south. There's a group of six going to the South Seas; there are several leaving for Spain to try to join up with the insurgent forces. Then again there are several Americans who will spend Christmas day on home soil. It is remarkable how the spirit of Christmas, somehow or other entangled with the devices of Cupid, works to take Americans home from abroad.