SEES QUARANTINE POSSIBILITY FOR HARVARD IN FLU SPREAD

The influenza epidemic, which is spreading East from beginnings in California and which resulted in the closing of the University of Missouri and other Middle Western schools on Tuesday, is due to arrive in Boston within a week, according to Dr. H. A. Christian, professor of Medicine in the Harvard Medical School.

It is possible that the College may be closed or that the students will be quarantined and prevented from going to their homes at Christmas vacation. It is unlikely that such action will be taken, according to Dr. Christian, for contagion spreads in cities whether schools are closed or not. In 1918, when a much worse form of the "flu" visited the country, Harvard was not shut down, although the epidemic started in Boston just before the college year began.