The Halls Decked

Yesterday our Cambridge merchants put up the first Christmas lights on Harvard Square. And let no one misconstrue their motives. For it was not a base desire for commercial advantage that prompted these men to decorate our humble thoroughfare on the last day of October. Rather was it a sincere wish to bring holiday cheer to a borough caught in the doldrums of the dreary autumn season.

Let the leaves fall. Let the skies be gray. Let the hour exams press on relentlessly. We care not, for it is Christmas in Harvard Square, and the merchants of Cambridge, bless them, have made joy and good spirits the order of the day.