ADVOCATE FIFTY YEARS OLD

More than 100 former editors, present editors, and guests will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Advocate at a dinner in the Copley Plaza Hotel this evening at 7 o'clock. Professor A. B. Hart '80 will be the toastmaster of the evening. Among the speakers will be President Lowell; Professor C. H. Grandgent '83; W. G. Peckham '67, representing the living editors of the first Advocate board; Professor Langdon Warner '03; Arthur Cheney Train '96; Edward Everett Hale '83; and R. N. Cram '17, president of the present board.

The guests of the dinner, in addition to President Lowell, will be D. H. Ingram '16, president of the CRIMSON; F. G. C. O'Neill '16, business manager of the CRIMSON; E. H. Foreman '16; H. Wentworth '17, president of the Lampoon; L. P. Mansfield '16, former president of the Lampoon; H. A. Larrabee '16, former president of the Illustrated; M. A. DeW. Howe '87, editor of the Alumni Bulletin; and R. S. Mitchell 1G., president of the Monthly.

The dinner is being given under the direction of the graduate trustees of the Advocate; Professor Hart and R. M. Jopling '16 are in charge of the entertainment program. In connection with the dinner, the Advocate is publishing the fiftieth anniversary number, containing many contributions from well-known novelists and poets.

At the dinner this evening the Advocate ten-year book of verse will be distributed. The last Advocate board finished the one hundredth volume at mid-years, making the total number of issues more than 1000