Visiting English Scholar Finds Harvard Square Supports Logic of Eighteenth Amendment-Oxford Steals Police Caps

W. F. P. Chadwick, Davison Scholar from Wadham College, Oxford, finds life in metropolitan American Cambridge in sharp contrast to life in rural Oxford. "Harvard Square," he told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "Is one of the strongest arguments for Prohibition."

Chadwick holds one of the two Davison Scholarships providing for a year's study at Harvard for students of Oxford and Cambridge. At Oxford, his field of concentration was Ancient History and Philosophy. The Renaissance and Reformation, and Economics, are the subjects of his further study this year.

"At Oxford," Chadwick continued, "the town is merely an adjunct of the University. We don't have the traffic problem as you do here in Cambridge. Moreover we are used to looking the wrong way for motors. When I start across Harvard Square, I took to the right. By the time I realize I should be looking the other way a honking horde of cars has descended upon me from the left. It's quite the most dangerous place in the world."

The method of controlling traffic by lights appealed to the visiting scholar. "In Picadilly," he said, "the lights are being tried, but are not used at all generally in England as yet."

"How are your relations with the police her?" asked Chadwick after a pause. When told of the so-called "riot" of last winter he laughed. "Oxford has been called the only place in England where the police are on good terms with the criminal class. A police helmet there is a popular and rather common student trophy. We choose our man knock his helmet off and promptly make away with it. Later we see that he is paid for his head piece.

"You take the movies very quietly here," continued Chadwick "I have seen things here, especially in the sub-titles, that would have raised the roof in an Oxford theatre, but the audience here was as staid as could be."