Circulation of a petition to obtain 500 signatures in favour of the opening of University dining hall next year has been halted. It was learned last night. A. G. Hart '30, in charge of the petition, the declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition, declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition to President Lowell this spring in order to permit the completion of the new dining hall next year.

On May 2 President Lowell announced that the University had approved plans for the execution of a dining hall at the corner of Holyoke and Mount Anburn Streets if a petition was signed by 500 students pledging themselves to eat regularly at the hall. The petition was started in circulation at once, chiefly in the Freshman Halls, and to date about 200 signatures have been secured. No organized attempt had been made to obtain names of upperclassmen and graduates, although students in the Architectural School are believed to be interested in the project. The 500 signatures were not considered to be sufficient, and the petition has been withdrawn.

It is planned to circulate a similar partition next year, starting earlier in the year, and working or a more comprehensive basis. Suggestions for the working of the plan may be submitted to Alfred Worcester '78, Henry K. Oliver, Professor of Hygiene, at Wadsworth House. No one who signed the petition this year will be in any way obligated when the next document is issued.