Telephone Company Will Soon Install Dial System

Following the lead of its big sister, Boston, Cambridge will soon begin the installation of a dial telephone system. Three completely new exchanges will come into existence, and University and Porter will become things of the past. The work of installation will begin almost immediately, and the Cambridge Telephone Company plans to complete it within the coming year.

The necessity of three exchanges is explained by the fact that University and Porter conflict with others already in existence. This changing of exchanges will cause much trouble, much rewriting of address books, but it is a necessary evil in the cause of progress. No names for the new exchanges have as yet been settled upon. Eliot was suggested, but since the dial signal E-L-I would be quite likely to cause some trouble because of its peculiar incongruity with its surroundings, the cautious telephone company decided to change it to something less suggestive to the mind of the Harvard man.