PRECIOUS PARKING

Declaration of war by the Cambridge police on all night parkers focusses the perennial attention on the need for more adequate parking facilities about the University. While it is impossible to expect the administration to create parking spaces for the students, it is at least logical to request that it allow men to use university property which at present is standing idle.

One of the worst eye-sores about Cambridge is the plot of land controlled by the college on the corner of De Wolfe and Mill Streets. Overgrown with weeds, surrounded by a broken-down fence, it appears to serve absolutely no useful purpose. Meanwhile students are forced to hire costly garages or run the risk of an expensive and annoying appearance in court. The land could be filled in, levelled off with cinders, and turned into a satisfactory parking space at a very nominal cost. A small charge, sufficient to defray the original outlay and to provide for the up-keep might well be charged those who kept their cars there. Near to three of the Houses, there is no doubt that the undergraduates would be glad to use it.

The utilization of this vacant lot for parking purposes would easily accomplish two definite ends. It would clean up a most ugly spot about the University and would aid a large number of students to solve their parking problem at a comparatively reasonable cost.