The Harvard Social Service Committee will conduct an excursion to the Boston penal institutions on Deer Island, on Tuesday, October 22. The men who go will leave for Deer Island by the city tug from the Eastern Avenue Wharf, on the north side of the South Ferry, at 2.15 p.m.

They will be shown all the arrangement and working of the penal institutions, and the way in which the prisoners are registered and received, the rules governing them, and the way in which they are taken care of will be explained.

To catch the boat at Eastern Avenue Wharf, men should leave Harvard square for the subway at 1.15, transferring at Park street to an Atlantic loop car. The number of men who can be taken is limited to 40, and all who wish to go should send their names at once to E. C. Carter, Phillips Brooks House. The excursion is free.