UNIVERSITY CUT FROM WORLD OVER AN HOUR YESTERDAY

The University's connections with the outside world were abruptly severed yesterday morning when the Lehman Hall switchboard faded out for almost an hour between 10 and 11 o'clock.

Over seven hundred individual lines connecting with every office in the University went dead while the technicians frantically hunted out the cause of the telephone blackout in the bowels of the building. Meanwhile confusion prevailed.

A 45 minute search finally revealed the culprit in the form a corroded battery connection that had crumbled to dust under its rubber casing.