NOTABLE NUMBER DINE AT LOWELL HOUSE HIGH TABLE

With Edward S. Harkness, Governor Frank G. Allen of Massachusetts, and President Lowell present as guests of honor, high table at Lowell House was inaugurated last evening. In addition to the undergraduate members of the House, a large group of tutors and associates was also present, bringing the total number of diners to approximately 250.

Enthusiasm of the undergraduate residents of the house for the initial high table was somewhat dampened due to the prolonged wait that occurred before the doors of the dining room were thrown open, since the punctual Lowell House residents who arrived promptly at 6.15 o'clock were forced to stand for nearly three-quarters of an hour in the concourse adjoining the dining hall before gaining admittance.

On entering the room those who expected any unusual sight were disappointed, since the high table, though set for dinner, had no occupants, and the dining room presented the same appearance that it had at all previous meals. After a short pause while the House remained standing waiting for something to happen, the diners were waved to their seats by Head Tutor Mason Hammond '25.

Half way through the soup course, with the high table still vacant of occupants, the diners were plunged into sudden darkness when the lights, which some few moments before had shown a slight uncertainty, went out. This apparently unforeseen failure of the electricity coincided with the entrance of President Lowell, who mounted the platform, a lighted candle in either hand. In another moment the lighting problem had been solved and into the once more gleaming dining room entered the associates of the House. Professor Coolidge the guests of honor, and in the rear, the members of the undergraduate committee. Dinner was then resumed, and although once again the lights failed throughout the building, as had been previously announced by Professor Coolidge, he refrained from giving any explanation of the mystery.

At the close of the dinner, diners at the high table rose in a body and left the room, while many of the undergraduates stood in the rear of the room, evidently expecting speeches or some other rites to conclude the occasion. Speeches and ceremony of any kind, however, evidently have no part in Professor Coolidge's plans for these gatherings, and so in simple manner the first high table gathering was brought to a conclusion.