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A week from today, Harvard will play host to a convention of college business officers who come from everywhere in the Eastern States. Harvard Square will team with comptrollers; the Yard will buzz with bursars. Indeed, little bursars will learn tricks from big bursars; and vest-pocket colleges will henceforth command the services of their one hired man with all the aplomb of Mr. Apted himself.

Delegates will pay $2 apiece to attend a banquet in Eliot House and hear a speech on "Making Both Ends Meet Under the Present Conditions." Meanwhile, outdoors, the great searchlights on Harvard's four house-towers will light the sky. Bright prismatic beams will cheer the unemployed and guide stray geese going South.

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