Jungle Drums

It is hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy.

New Haven's finest showed as much vigilance as Her Majesty's Royal Kenya Rifles when confronted with a jeering mob; and now President A. Whitney Griswold has placed the entire student body on probation. Although designed to conciliate righteous New Haven residents, such repression seems especially grave for spring disturbances. After all, the natives are bound to get restless now and then.