CENTRAL PARKING

Last year the Cambridge police department swept several score of Harvard automobiles from the streets and their owners into court, and it has lately been threatening a repetition of this procedure. The logic of the situation is clear to the Cambridge police: all students at Harvard are notoriously wealthy; students with automobiles are higher even than the general run; if such students, refuse to stable their cars in the square the are perverse, and should, like all the perverse rich, be swatted.

Other colleges provide parking space for their student bodies, and in Cambridge, where the garage accommodations are obviously insufficient to the demand, the need for it is clear enough. The CRIMSON, after an investigation, declared last year that the tract behind the Business School could be prepared at a cost of less than seven hundred dollars. This is a sum which a very small initial fee from each Parker could defray. Before the police inaugurate further nonsense in the name of order, the advantages of such a planned parking space should be considered.