'44 Committee Will Investigate Food

Beginning its investigations of the recent epidemics of indigestion among the Yardlings, a Freshman committee, composed of Robert W. Gillette, Albert C. Kelly and Wallace McDonald, interviewed three Yardling waiters Saturday in an effort to determine if the recent sickness among the first-year men has been due to contaminated food.

Today the committee will talk to all of the Freshman proctors, in addition to those students who were ill but who had private physicians attending them. On Tuesday the kitchen staff, the hostesses, and the steward of the Union will be interviewed, and on Wednesday the committee will submit a report to the Student Council.

One theory, already advanced by a doctor in the Hygiene Department, is that the sickness was caused by the Yardlings breathing in an overdose of bad air around Cambridge. But since none of the other classes have been affected by "respiratory" trouble, the Freshman committee has considered this explanation unsatisfactory. However, according to Gillette, the chairman of the committee, the investigations are merely trying to clear up the situation.