Faced by an overflow crowd reminiscent of a political rally, Professor Kittredge delivered his lecture on Shakspere in the New Lecture Hall yesterday rather than in Emerson D.
"Kitty" decided to move to the larger auditorium principally because the avid Shaksperians prevented his entrance to the originally scheduled room. When word spread that the locale had been shifted to Professor Merriman's lair, ladies from Radcliffe, boys and girls from Rindge Tech, and just plain Harvardmen threw dignity to the winds and raced helter-skelter for vantage spots from which to hear that "King Claudius, (Hamlet's uncle), of all geat characters in Shakspere, is the one who has suffered most at the hands of actors and stage managers."
Every seat in the Lecture Hall was taken and both side aisles were jammed with standees during the entire address, constituting, as one member of the faculty was heard to say, "A remarkable tribute to a great scholar."
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A THREAT TO THRIFT
