'After following the progress of the new Allied expedition to Salonika, and studying with mixed feelings the competitive journalistic outbursts over the shooting of Nurse Cavell, the three of us read, rather sadly, in "The Times" of October 15th, the customary account of the opening of the Michaelmas term at Oxford, and speculated whether we should ever again see as students the grey walls clothed in their scarlet robes of autumn creeper.'