1878*

That story in the Baker Library Bulletin for December of a student who, wandering into the enclosure of the Orozco paintings and listening to the stuttering uproar that came through the wall from a pneumatic drill boring into its outside, asked if the murals were being wired for sound, must remind alumni of the '70's of the story in circulation in their day of a student who early one morning when the temperature was so low that you had to put your thumb on the thermometer bulb to get the mercury up to where you could read it, meeting a well muffled professor who informed him assertively that it was very cold, responded, "Yes. Guess somebody must have left the chapel door open last night."

Might the more modern of the two students be a descendant of the other? The humor savors of heredity.

Harlow's knees crumpled under him sometime in October, leaving him on the floor whence his daughter, with the help of his physician, who fortunately lives next door, succeeded in getting him to bed where he remained for several weeks under care of a nurse; but he is now able, with aid, to get down stairs for a portion of the day. His son, William '12, engineer of the Oregon Shipbuilding Cos., reckons on launching a merchant ship every five days.

NEAREST FIRING LINE

Hayt, who has long been agitated over foreign policy and the labor situation, must by now be giving first attention to war, being nearest of the class to the firing line.

Mrs. Gerould says she has to exercise war courage when she thinks of her family in California; and Joe's daughter, Mrs. Gordon, is attending warden classes and absorbed in all kinds of defense work.

Mrs. Ewing and her two daughters have moved to Pasadena, Calif., (1187 Armada Drive) where Charlotte is occupational therapist in a sanitarium. Margaret, more recently arrived, has no permanent employment as yet. They have already experienced several blackouts, and are learning the ways of war.

Bouton has replaced the stolen high power eye-piece by exchange with a Harvard professor of a spare low power one of his own make for a highpower one of Alvan Clark make, so is again fully equipped for duty on the astronomical skirmish line.

Secretary, 321 Highland Ave., Fitchburg, Mass

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