DAN DANIELS, FAMOUS NEWS SELLER, HAS BEEN IN SQUARE SINCE 1908

Twenty-seven years is a long time, no matter how you spend it. But Dan Daniels has been standing in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank on Harvard Square just that long, since September, 1908.

Dan is totally blind, and everyone who has walked up Massachusetts Avenue from Dunster Street, has probably seen him at has post at one time or another. Although he admitted to a CRIMSON reporter that last Sunday was a "pretty mean day to be out," weather doesn't keep him from working his seven hours a day.

There has long been a belief that Dan can recognize different people by their footsteps as they approach him, but he says such a rumor is false. However, he can hear people stop in front of him to buy papers and is able to hand them the one they ask for. His papers and he knows just where to reach to get each one.

No one has ever had to help Dan find his way around. He is rather well acquainted with Cambridge Streets, as can seasonably be expected after 27 years, and his cane serves to keep him on the track.

At the time of the divulging of these facts. Daniels had a bad cold and his usual stentorian tones advertising his business were somewhat muffled, but ordinarily he is easily heard and thus attracts prospective buyers.

Dan thinks Harvard is all right, but declines to comment on the probable outcome of the Yale game Saturday.