HARVARD MEN THINK OF THEIR MOTHERS, SQUARE SALES SHOW

Whether it is due to the war, or just a plain, old-fashioned "everything I am I owe to my mother" feeling among Cambridge undergraduates, the purveyors of flowers, sweetmeats, and telegrams in the Square are finding themselves pressed, with Mother's Day in sight, to cope with a rush of undergraduate gift and greetings buyers.

An eleventh-hour canvass of the local merchants revealed this stampede, at the same time unveiling the Harvard man's gift-sending eccentricities. According to the Boylston Street telegraph office, Yardlings and upperclassmen, during the past week, have been deluging every corner of the country with messages of filial affection. However, the war has put an end to the Mother's Day worldwide telegraphing exploits carried on in pre-war years, which penetrated as far as Africa, India, and China.

Students Are Original

Determined that their English A training shall not go for naught, undergraduates have been straining their mentalities in search of original expressions of love and gratitude for mother. That their efforts are not in vain is shown by the telegraph office manager's statement that Harvard me far surpass the average telegram-writer in ingenuity.

In fact, most Cantabrigians scorn the company's "ready-made" Mother's Day greetings, terming them naive and hackneyed. Those students, however who chose the form telegrams, are usually inclined toward maudlin sentimentality, the canvassing showed. But sentimental or not, Harvard men, this year as in the past, are outstripping their Radcliffe sisters in expressions of love for mother.

Effect of the War

The poll also showed a feeling among the Square merchants that the war has caused undergraduate thought to turn closer to home this year than on past Mother's Days, resulting in the great increase in telegraming.