A freshman's date for the Jubilee Weekend, upset by a lovers' quarrel, tried to kill herself at 12:50 a.m. yesterday by leaping onto the subway tracks in the Square terminal. She was saved because she jumped behind a train which had just stopped, apparently thinking it was the front of a train just arriving.
The girl, Joanne Alexander of Weston, a freshman at Bates College in Maine, was taken in an hysterical condition to Cambridge City Hospital, where she told of her suddenly shattered romance.
According to police, the girl was left in a parked car by her date, who went into a nearby store. While he was gone, she hastily scribbled a suicide note, left it in the car, and dashed for the subway kiosk.
Police authorities released the grief-stricken girl to her mother. They said no charges would be pressed. The mother, Mrs. Ralph A. Alexander, disclosed last night that her daughter was removed from the hospital during the afternoon and was "resting quietly at home."
Neither police nor Mrs. Alexander would reveal the name of the freshman who was the girl's escort and a principal in the ill-fated love affair.
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