CAMBRIDGE GIRL UNDERGRADS DRESS BETTER THIS YEAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18639, 17 December 1928, Page 16

CAMBRIDGE GIRL UNDERGRADS DRESS BETTER THIS YEAR.

(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October IS. After four months of summer sleepfulness, Cambridge is waking up to the start of a new university year. Full term started yesterday, when undergraduates arrived by train and in their cars, laden with trunks, bags, golf clubs, and gramophones, but they were still pouring into the town to-day, for lectures do not start until to-mor-row. College porters have been overworked carrying trunks up the winding college staircases. “ They seem to bring more luggage every year,” one grumbled. Something of a novelty has been provided by several women students who arrived at their colleges in their own little sports cars, for which, of course, they have to obtain permission.

Incidentally several undergraduates have told me that the women are more smartly dressed this- year than before. It was about time,” one Blue remarked. “They were not too easy to look at before.” The most cheerful men in the town to-night are freshmen who have been up a week with the town only half awake and few games to amuse them. They have been most conspicuous walk ing about the streets, but now in the general mass they have* lost themsenves and feel happier.