WINTHROP HOUSE HAS HONOR OF FIRST FIRE

Harvard had its first fire of the year last evening at 9 o'clock when a large pile of leaves blazed up in front of the main gate of Winthrop House on Memorial Drive. As usual, four of Cambridge's finest engines and about two hundred students turned out promptly.

Sympathy of the assembled onlookers was entirely on the side of the conflagration. No effort was expended to extinguish the blaze until the engines arrived, and even then the fire was exhorted in its hopeless ten-minute battle against torrential streams pumped from the Charles.

A pre-Halloween celebration on the part of a certain firebug element among the undergraduates was the consensus of opinion as to the casus belli. The immediate result was a half hour traffic tieup, during which time the delayed motorists expressed impatience in the usual harmonious fashion.