Harvard waitresses took many an extra step last week because of New England's floods. They carried glass after glass of milk back to the kitchens after wary students had objected to its taste.

Roy L. Westcott, Manager of the University Dining Halls, stated last night that probably the delay in transportation caused by flood waters was responsible. It seems possible that partial separation of the cream may have occurred. He added that in spite of its taste the milk was perfectly wholesome and approved by State authorities.

In the present situation Harvard's supply must be brought from points hundreds of miles distant by a fleet of trucks operating in relays. Several times last week there were anxious minutes in the central kitchen when milk failed to arrive until a few minutes before it was to be served.

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The Veterans of Future Wars will take definite steps this week to organize a chapter at Harvard.

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Last week a book was returned to Widener ten years overdue. The "culprit" was Robert P. Blake, director of the University Library, (of which Widener is a unit.) Because of a clerical error it was not charged to him when he took it out in 1926.

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A frozen pudding and a bottle of ether met in pitched battle in one of the refrigerating rooms of the Biological Laboratory recently. In the past some students have kept their box lunches and suppers in these "cold rooms." Others have insisted in storing their animals, alive and dead, fresh and preserved, in these same chambers. A showdown between the two factions was imminent.

It was precipitated by a celebration held in the laboratory by certain workers not long ago. An imposing frozen pudding had been ordered for the occasion and placed in the refrigerating room. A Senior had seen fit to keep a bottle of ether in that same room.

A deadlock was avoided when Alden B. Dawson, director of the laboratory, intervened in favor of the ether and issued a form letter suggesting that, in view of the original purpose of the "cold rooms," their use as convenient, oversize Frigidaires for frozen puddings, etc., should cease.