Fifty candidates for election to the student Council started gathering petitions last night, after six Houses and Dudley had held preliminary nomination meetings. Leverett alone failed to draw a quorum of 25 percent of its members, and it has scheduled another meeting for tonight.

Freshmen will name their contenders at a meeting in the Union tonight at 7 o'clock.

The candidates:

Adama House: John D. White, Jr. '50, Clyde Eagleton, Jr. '48, George 1. Harris '50, John K. Lally '49, Richard Hatton '49, Merton M. Madway '48, M. Jerome Franklin '49, William S. Campbell '50.

Dudley Hall: Carl R. Marshall '50, Edgar F. Noble '49, Paul J. Douglass '50, Shepard P. Pollock '49, Leo J. Fitzpatrick '50, Edward P. Morrissey '49.

Dunster House: Henry E. Manning '49, Robert T. Lund '46, Frederick Deane, Jr. '48, Charles R. Brynteson '50, James H. Heller '49.

List Continued

Eliot House: Douglas H. T. Bradlee '50, Albert B. Carter, Jr. '50, Hamilton Fish IV '47, Lawrence V. Goodrich '50, Charles W. Detjen '50, Amery Houghton, Jr. '50, John B. Gray '49, Stanley J. Polak '50, Peter N. Stanford '50.

Kirkland House: N. Conant Webb, Jr. '49, Robert L. Fischelis '50, George W. Keitt, Jr. '50, Charles H. Tanner '49, Arthur F. Bickford, Jr. '50.

Lowell House: George C. Lodge '50, R. David Young, Jr. '50, David C. Poskanzer '50, Herbert J. Spire '50, Robert B. Clark '48, Edward P. Healy '47, Donald M. Landis '50, Walde H. Heinrichs, Jr. '47, Francois J. Malle '50.

Winthrop House: Joseph R. Brown '46, Hale M. Knight '50, Ethan W. Bisbee '50, Hans H. Estin '49, Daniel J. Coolidge '49, Charles T. Hesse '50, Brantly Harris '49, Curtis H. Jones '50.

Chairmen of the Sophomore and Junior Class nominating committees were announced last night by Council President William D. Weeks '49. They are, respectively: Richard D. Kimball '49 and William S. Campbell '50.

Nomination meetings were temporally confused when bad enunciation substituted a Kilpatrick for a Fitzpatrick, and a Bartlett for a Bartle.