Harvard's faculty boasts two ex-finance ministers of Austria. The latest one, not Professor Schumpeter, went abroad last summer, climbed up into "high official circles" and was given the finance portfolio. He cabled at once to University Hall for a year's leave of absence, which was granted. That was early in September. Late in the same month his government was defeated in parliament, and he was turned out of office. Did he hop off on a year's tour of the world, with pay? He did not. He returned to Cambridge, and wistfully offered himself up for humbled course work.

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President Conant lost no time this year in asking the University to call on him a Sunday afternoons at 17 Quincy Street; where he will probably brew tea in Pyrex beakers over a silver Bunsen burner. But the convivial graduate students who look forward to these wholesome meals have not as yet found the little invitations in the Crimson. This is not because President Conant has not tea in his pantry yet, but because he does not live at 17 Quincy Street. President Conant "will be glad to see all men who are students in the University," when the Cambridge furniture-moving strike is ended, when he will move his worldly goods from his house on Oxford Street.

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The editors of the CRIME modestly put forward a program by which the diplomats of Lehman Hall can rehabilitate themselves. According to Endicott, Emery, Inc., to keep the Library open at night would, deplete the coffers of the Harvard Square Landlords, and to allot a vacant lot for car parking would empty the money boxes of the Brattle Square Law Lords.

The Widener Reading Room is never used after 6 o'clock, and the elevator leading up from the basement is never used at all. Surely the Cambridge government would not grudge the tax-free library the innocent, helpful night-duty of housing some student cars.

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Mayer Russell and his aides spent Sunday afternoon naming streets in these precincts. The amorphous area, of tar between the Brooks House and the Music Building was enobied by that name of names, "General Thaddeus Kosciuazko Square," in honor of a hero of the Rebellion of 1776, We suggested "Colonel Charles R. Apted '06 Square," in memory of the Rebellion of 1932.