Advocate Breaks Ground For New $45,000 Building

As negotiations to prevent the Bat Club from moving into the Advocate's present quarters continued, the magazine's officers broke grounds for its new building at 21 South Street.

May 1 is the date set of completition of the two-story Georgian structure with a garden in back and a bar on the second floor. The lease for the old offices above the Cafe Capriccio expires in February.

While the Advocate faces four months in the cold now, matters were even grimmer a few weeks ago when the fund drive stalled $15,000 short of the necessary $45,000. A loan from graduate editors solved the problem late last week.

A series of five-year plans to raise donations from graduate editors to repay the loan is being planned. Samuel H. Ordway '21, chairman of the magazine's board of trustees, discussed the Advocate's financial difficulties at the yesterday's ground-breaking ceremony.

"News-mongering and cartooning," Ordway explained, "are far more lucrative pursuits than the creative art that is literature."

Ordway predicted that the new building will put to shame the Lampon's "pantagruellian gargoylerole" and the CRIMSON'S "mouldering monolith." The Advocate's new home, he said, will be "utilitarian, beauteous, and in superb good taste."