Travel Delay Seen; Storm Threatens Roads, Airways

The AAA has urged students planning to go home by car for the holidays to leave Cambridge before this evening, as snowy weather threatens to throw a wrench into travel plans.

Snow is forecast for tonight, and it may deal another paralyzing blow to Massachusetts roads in addition tying up airplanes departures.

The storm Friday, which caused heavy flight cancellations by all airlines and made driving treacherous over the weekend, may have been partly responsible for detaining students at the University. An American Airlines jet skidded into a snow-bank at Logan Airport Saturday, blocking air traffic for five hours.

A check of dining hall attendance yesterday revealed that only 500-600 under-graduates had left for vacation. Dunster appeared to be leading the House in absences with 70.

Class Attendance Good

Class attendance was generally good, especially in Science and Math courses where many still face hour exams. Hardest hit by pre-Christmas cutting were Humanities and Social Relations lectures.

"Students are getting more conservative" about leaving, explained Luis Yglesias '58, teaching fellow in Spanish. He indicated, however, that he expected all but one per cent of his students to be gone by Wednesday.

Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, said he was not surprised that "the vagaries of Christmas Day" had made inroads into his lecture course. But expressed regret that his Wednesday Phil 1 lecture might be heard by few students.