VOICES AND HANDS

Fitting indeed is the inaugurat ceremony attending the opening of the New England to London Transatlantic telephone service this morning. When President Lowell and Vice-Chancellor Weekes of Cambridge University speak to one another across the sea, the newest achievement of science will receive a fitting dedication. It is not that this most remarkable means of communication will benefit by the blessing of educational leaders in two countries; but rather that these same leaders can be relied upon to exchange greetings worthy to be remembered as the first vocal conversation between the New England and Old.

When the first Transatlantic telephone service was opened in New York, most of the remarks made concerned the weather. There apparently was a startling disparity of climatic conditions in London and New York. Reading the account of the conversations, many remembered the first message sent on that other momentous occasion, the opening of the telegraph: "What hath God wrought!"

Today's conversation however, does more than open a telephone line. The first American college greets one of the great English universities to which it has long looked with gratitude and critical admiration. The bonds binding Harvard with its great predecessors will be made still closer by this morning's ceremony.