The other day interested passers by might have been mildly surprised to see a huge van pull up and stop in front of the Lowell House west gate. Three rather surly looking, individuals in coveralls disembarked, opened up the rear of the truck and began pulling out sacks of mall. There were eleven monstrous canvas bags, each sealed and franked with the impressive insignia of the United States government. Slowly and laboriously they were dragged, one at a time, up the steps to the quarters of a studious sophomore, who received in great astonishment both the bags and the black looks of the departing porters.

Investigation revealed that the sacks contained 187 volumes of the congressional record, brand new, bound in calf, beautifully embossed in gold, and complete since 1915. It seems that the student's father, prominent in middle western political affairs, had let drop to the state senator that his son was concentrating in Government at Harvard, and would perhaps be interested in legislative affairs. The senator, quite evidently a man with a sense of humor, took him at his word.

New the governmental prize package must be disposed of. The ponderous tomes, at present piled waist high about a Lowell House study, threaten to dispossess the owner. It is planned that they be offered to the Lowell House library, but in event of polite refusal by that body, the student will be left, as it were, holding the bags.