COMEDY AT UNIVERSITY

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18069, 17 March 1923, Page 11

COMEDY AT UNIVERSITY

GIRLS WHO STAY OUT LATE. A battle of wits is in'progress between the college authorities at Oxford and the undergraduettes. In the past these, young women have devised ways and means of getting into college xfnseen and unheard late at night. They have 1 been known to scale walls, sometimes unaided, hut on at least one occasion last term with the help of an nndex-gradnate. With the true Raleigh gallantry ho stooped down, the fair offender jumped on to his back and was hoisted up until she could grasp the top of the wall and clamper over.

Now, at on© of the colleges, 3ft. spiked railings have been placed upon tlie wall, and they were given a coat of paint to hide their ugliness. The average citizen has been puzzled at seeing these railings erected, fox' they certainly do not add to the beauty of the college precincts.. Undergraduates passing the spot however, have been observed" to smile complacently. They guess the purpose chest! obstacles are meant to serve, but it is rumoured, that- the girls, with sporting instincts, murmuring the lines of tho Cavalier poet about stone walls and iron bars, are not unduly perturbed. Their counter-strategy is awaited with interest. Burglars have been known to take feather pillows with, them on their nocturnal expeditions to meet such a contingency as iron spikes,!