"DETOUR"

Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes and descriptions, purring furniture vans, and spitting remnants of Ford trucks wheezing around the tarvia track on a mission of mercy in the guise of mercantilism.

Former upheavals that have served to disturb the equanimity of Harvard's fertile backyard soil have at least been compensated for in part by such epic discoveries as that of the Harvard plates, dear to the heart of old graduates and more recent wives. But unless some former treasures of the Med. Fac. or the buried miscellanies and Imperial testimonies of similar secret societies be the result of the present activity, we can look for ward to little but the plebian and depressingly progressive activity of white gloved gesticulating yard oops and the existence of red and green lights, to signify not the carefree pursuits of former days, but the commonplace flow of students in their daily perambulatory activity.