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MIDDLE AGES DESCEND ON FRESHMEN DINING AT UNION

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The ordinarily brightly lighted Freshman dining hall in the Harvard Union took on a mediaeval aspect last night at dinner time, when the main fuse blew out, and the five or six hundred men who were eating there at the time were left in total darkness.

At once all the available candles and candlesticks in the building were rushed to the scene, and soon each of the long tables that now fill the former living room was lighted by a single slender candle, giving the scene a mediaevel appearance. An enterprising electrician, however, soon brought the banqueters back to the 20th century.

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