Estimated 300 Students, Tutors Don Masks, Costumes at Quincy Party

"My date came as the glory that was Greece in a sheet and I came as the grandeur that was Rome in a curtain." Philip A. Stone '62 reflected yesterday, commenting on the large and boisterous Mardi Gras Ball held on the sixth floor of Quincy House Saturday night.

Six rooms, the corridor, and $130 worth of beverages were used to accommodate the estimated 300 students, tutors, and interested though not necessarily sober observers in attendance--over half of whom were dressed in costumes representing a fat slice of historical mankind from Edward the Black Prince to a churl.

Second Mardi Gras

John T. Parker '62, a native of New Orleans, instigated the party, his second Mardi Gras Ball in two years. Over Christmas vacation, he said yesterday, he and friends of his in New Orleans organized the party's plans. As a result, over 20 different schools were represented, including Yale, Columbia, Annapolis, Antioch, Vassar, Smith, and Skidmore. The theme of the party was "levez fenfer," which followed the raising of the rugs.

At one point in the evening one inebriated student shouted, "There's the nicest, most realistic (censored) costume at the whole party!" The boy, believed to be a Yalie, was pointing at the uniform of a University Policeman, hired by the Quincy administration to provide some restraining influence.

Parker said yesterday that everybody at Radcliffe and Harvard is invited to next year's Mardi Gras Ball.