We are wondering what Santa Claus is going to do about the Adams House Chimney. If he descends to fill the stockings which the denizens of that patchquilt House hang at Christmas he may be blown back up the Chimney, sky high, bag, and all. A powerful fan is being built under the Adams hearth to make the flames in the unsuccessful fireplace go up, and make the smoke also obey gravity.

The smoke, it seems, has not taken notice of the chimney built especially for its guidance three years ago. The chimney is only a part of the fireplace which is one of the finest, a rare antique, we are told. Three years ago, when the Adams House was launched at a big inaugural affair, at which no undergraduates were present the guests were smoked out by the lusty young chimney. The janitor immediately tackled the problem by raising the logs up nearer the flue, but the smoke would take no encouragement, preferring to hang like a cloud over the Common Room table. He then blocked up the top part of the fireplace, trying to pinch the vapors into submission to Newton's law of Gravity to the Moon. But the smoke dived underneath the fires and came screeching up into his eyes.

At that point the Maintenance Department stopped in, deciding at once that the Chimney was not tall enough. But the architects would hear of no additions to their classic structure. The maintenance department had an old fan which they then placed at the top of the flue to draw the smoke, if not from the fireplace, from the wood itself. But again the smoke moped in a corner of the Common Room.

The University engineer, the Adams House engineer, the janitor, and the plenipotentiary of the Maintenance Department at a consultation around the hearth yesterday, opined that they could blow away the whole trouble, by putting the fan under the fire. Common Room loungers however were skeptical, saying that the smoke would be blown around them stronger and steadier. We suggest a gas-range.

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Lowell House is adding to its closetful of traditions 15 Port Glasses with the House Crest. They may be used for the Harvard Beer served nightly at High Table, for though the House has seven squash courts, and some fine lockers for ageing firewood, it has as yet no wine cellar.