UNIVERSITY' CAR. BAN.
LONDON, November 28. Cambridge has had six weeks’ expenienoe of the prohibition of the use of motor-ears hv freshmen and the restriction of their use by other undergraduates to the hours between 12.30 and 8.30 p.m., and the general verdict is that the regulations are satisfactory. “In the lecture-rooms adjoining main streets I was formerly forced to stop every five minutes or so owing to the roar of motor traffic outside. Now I am able to carry on uninterrupted,’’ a
tutor said yesterday. “The only disadvantage of the new regulations is the extra work they give tutors in signing special permits for under-graduates to use cars outside the regulation hour’s. “ With the prohibition of freshmen’s cars a reduction of one-third in the total number used was expected, but the reduction has been much greater.” A story that the Proctor responsible [ for the administration of the regulation had been summoned for driving a motor car to the danger of the public appeared in rhyme in the “Grants,”' the Cambridge University magazine. It has no foundation and the editor of the “ Oranta ” has had an interview with the Proctor, in accordance with university discipline;:
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Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 4
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195UNIVERSITY' CAR. BAN. Hokitika Guardian, 18 January 1926, Page 4
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