REMOTE POSSIBILITY OF CLOSING COLLEGE

Unless the rate of increase in patients suffering from respiratory diseases at Stillman Infirmary jumps up alarmingly in the near future, there is no possibility that Harvard University will close, according to Dr. P. H. Means '17, the University Medical Adviser.

There are now 57 men in the infirmary, 47 of whom have anything from coughs and colds to low-grade pneumonia. The infirmary will have accommodations for about 100 beds after arrangements for expansion which are now being made, have been completed. If the number runs over this among, about 35 more can be accommodated at the overflow infirmary on Quincy Street, Cambridge. Any more cases than these will have to be put elsewhere, in which case the Governing Board of the University would probably meet, and the possibility of closing the school might arise.

The greatest fear at present is that the influenza epidemic which has been travelling eastward for the past few weeks, may hit Cambridge, for it has not done so yet, according to Dr. Means, who states that there are few true influenza cases in the University now, mostly just tonsilitis, bronchitis, and colds.

Extra assistance is being given Dr. Means at Stillman Infirmary by Dr. F. M. Findlay and Dr. Edward Harding '11, both of whom are surgeons who generally do not engage in general practice.