ROOSEVELT DEAD AT 63

While Boston public schools will be closed today, according to an announcement broadcast last night, Harvard and other colleges in Boston and vicinity will hold classes as usual. A. Calvert Smith '12, secretary to the Corporation and secretary of the Board of Overseers, conferred with Deans Hanford and Buck and with department chairmen by telephone last evening and reached the agreement stated.

Dean Sperry of the Divinity School is in New York and is expected back today, when Smith will confer with him in regard to holding a brief memorial service tomorrow or Sunday. As is customary, there will be no formal service until the day of the funeral.