Handkerchiefs, a crew race with Yale, and a hot sun combined 61 years ago in laughing about the change of the University color from magenta to crimson. To keep perspiration off their faces members of the varsity crew were handkerchiefs wound about the head and these happened to be crimson. The innovation struck the student's fancy with the eventual result that the color of the University was officially changed. The Magenta, the semi-monthly publication, became the Crimson.

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In the basement of Peabody Museum is located a "dust bin", whose area is half that of the ordinary House study room and whose depth is approximately three feet. In this sand-filled bin are buried skeleton surrounded by appropriate objects (pieces of pottery, etc.) Students in Anthropology 15, Field Methods in Anthropology, go digging for the hidden objects to gain practice in field work. The course is omitted this year.

Several legends center about the dust bin. Several years ago students were somewhat amazed to find two small gin bottles near the surface. Further excavation revealed a curiously posed woman's skeleton ensconced in the midst of larger empty gin bottles.

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Alfred M. Tozzer, professor of Anthropology and former director of an international school of Mexican archeology, has recently received than institute's entire collection. Attired in a white duster he is now actively engaged in Peabody sorting the shipment. None of the materials is to be exhibited but will be put aside for use in the dust bin.

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An exuberant but anxious student called us up Saturday morning--exuberant over his previous night's conquest of Weeks Bridge with bottle and automobile but anxious to know if he were the first to accomplish this feat.

As far as we know he is the second, but we went on to ask him what time he made the crossing. "Oh, all i did was scrape off the muffler," he replied, reminding us of Johnny Walker and his "still going strong."