Strictly Speaking

Several more coats of paint have recently been added to Lowell House's blue dome. A few years ago an expedition was sent to Italy to ferret out some kind of color-fast blue pigment for the bell tower; no results were forthcoming, and as a result new coats have had to be added each year. There are twenty in all at present.

Last week's job on the tower took a new turn; various parts of the dome were painted with different shades of blue. Now authorities, from some distant vantage point, may compare the fastness of each hue. Some day they'll find the shade, insists the Maintenance Department.

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Periodically alumni uncap their fountain pens to protest the presence of the shooting range in the basement of Memorial Hall--an edifice dedicated to those graduates among the Civil War Dead.

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The recent firearms investigation conducted by authorities reminded us of the fate of the gift of the French Government to Harvard made shortly after the Great War. It seems that the Harvard Battery was presented with several French, air-cooled machine guns which, because of the difficulty in obtaining suitable ammunition, were promptly stored in the basement of what is now Kirkland House.

Some time later the Maintenance Department saw fit to emit a howl when it discovered these weapons in the rooms of several students to whom they had been loaned for use as table ornaments.

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One of the most popular sandwiches at Bob Berger's Restaurant in Boston is not the Rudy Vallee, nor the Al Jolson, the Kate Smith, nor the Bing Crosby, but the Wilford Cook Saeger--Bursar of this University.