While the Harvard football team was wrapping up its preparations for the big game with Yale yesterday, Cambridge was gearing up for a crowded weekend of alumni parties,reunions and social events.

Thirty-two Harvard classes will be feted at Briggs and Carey cages, Weld and Newell Boathouses, the Palmer-Dixon Courts and tents set up on all sides of the stadium. Henry F. Colt '46, estimated the group at five to ten thousand alumni and wives.

As of last night, scalpers' prices for tickets to the game were running as high as $50 per ticket. Colt said that was a better price than the $100 desperate alumni have been forced to pay for Harvard-Yale tickets in 1968.

The Harvard-Yale game was called a "key event" by the general secretary of the alumni, Henry F. Gillette '35. He said it is "an integral part of the alumni relations program. The more alumni we get back to Cambridge, the happier we are."

Beautiful and Otherwise

Not all the festivities are official. Cambridge people, beautiful and otherwise, will gather for tailgate picnics before the game, and for other entertainments afterwards. Two perennial party-givers with reputations for attracting people more beautiful than otherwise are Harvard Overseer Maurice Lazarus '37 and Business School professor Ray Goldberg '48.

Both denied last night that they had any such reputation or deserved it, though Goldberg conceded that he was "flattered." Neither would reveal his guest lists, however, in order to put further suspicions to rest.

There will be several politicians in the stands today. As far as The Crimson could determine, all are Democrats, including Senator-elect John C. Culver '54(D-Iowa), a third-generation Harvard alumnus who played varsity football while here. Also Senator William D. Hathaway '49 (D-Maine).

Congressman Harley O. Staggers (D-W.Va.) is coming to watch his son Daniel '75 start in Harvard's defensive lineup. House majority leader Thomas P. O'Neil (D-Cambridge) will be in the stadium, along with Boston Mayor Kevin White and Cambridge mayor Walter J. Sullivan.

Charles U. Daly, vice president for government and community affairs and a Kennedy intimate, was wearing a PT-109 tie clip when The Crimson visited him yesterday but would not comment on whether the Kennedy clan would be coming to the game. The Crimson has learned that Senator and Mrs. Edward Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) will be here, but Ethel Kennedy is not expected.

After the Crimson interview, Daly left his office with senator-elect Culver, whom he was taking to watch football practice. Daly, a Yale graduate, suggested that he has always found The Game boring, and that those not connected with Harvard or Yale "would be better off finding a girl and a motel room and watching Ohio State on television."