An ounce of provention is worth a pound of cure, particularly when a termite invasion threatens. Following out its policy of rendering itself secure against local-influences, the University has again put its foot down on the termite advance with the placing of steel and concrete blocks in the foundations and cortain basement partitions in Sever Hall.

Some think that with the setting of the concrete Harvard students and aesthetically minded persons the world over have lost their last ally. The termite, with his taste for Sever's wooden undorpinning, gave promise of accomplishing what students have been vainly plotting and threatening since Harvard first saw Sever on a rather bleak day 55 years ago.