Students who are looking forward to the revival of an old custom in the University will soon have their wishes gratified, as the new Harvard-dinner plates are nearly ready, and are expected to arrive in this country sometime in March. Approximately 3600 dozen plates out of the original order for 4000 dozen have already been sold. Orders are still being received for the some three or four hundred dozen remaining.

Whether or not more of the plates will be ordered after the original 400 dozen has been sold, is still problematical, according to W. G. Morse '99, purchasing agent for the University. But it is understood that if a number of graduates, sufficient to warrant the placing of an order in the neighborhood of 250 dozen should want the plates, the University might consider it.

Views of University on Plates

The engravings are made from sketches by Professor K. J. Conant '15 of the School of Architecture and show 12 views of the University which has grown up to replace the College of 100 years ago. The first shows, University Hall, where the original plates were used: The second shows Massachusetts and Straus Halls. The third, Harvard Hall with Holden Chapel and Lionel Hall; the fourth, Harvard Hall with University and Lionel Halls; the fifth, the Freshman dormitories; the sixth, Mower Hall and Holden Chapel; the seventh, Widener Library; the eighth, Langdell Hall; the ninth, the Medical School; the tenth, the Library at the Business School; the eleventh, Memorial Hall, and the twelfth, Holden Chapel, with Hollis Hall and Stoughton Hall.

Connoisseurs Praise Plates

The process by which the plates are being made is one similar to that employed by makers of wood-cuts before the days of half-tones. The plates are to be finished in a series of handwork which, in the opinion of connoisseurs, will make them excellent samples of blue Staffordshire, and valuable from the collector's standpoint.

The new plates will be exact reproductions of the old patterns, with the borders of fruits and flowers surrounding a picture of one of the buildings.