TO ABANDON DINING HALL FOR PRESENT

In view of the small number of students who have pledged themselves to eat in a University dining hall next year the attempt to put through the-construction of such a hall before next fall has been abandoned by the University. While it will be impossible to carry the project any farther this spring, President Lowell has announced that the offer made by the Corporation to erect a hall on Mt. Auburn Street as soon as 500 students have signified their willingness to eat there will still hold good next year.

The CRIMSON'S recent canvass of student feeling toward a University dining hall has been taken as the final criterion of the lack of present interest in the project. On May 26 3000 pledge cards were sent out to all members of the three lower classes in the college and to all graduate students except those in the Business and Medical Schools. So far only 125 of these cards have been returned with signatures of men willing to eat in the proposed dining hall. This number falls far short of the 500 figure set by President Lowell as a necessary preliminary to the erection of the hall, and makes further work on the plan impossible until next year.

Freshman Response is Best

Of the 125 signed cards which have so far been returned to the CRIMSON 85 came from members of the class of 1930. The present Sophomore and Junior classes combined have furnished only 30 supporters of the project, while the small remaining number is divided between the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. From the cards that private dining rooms will receive little support if the University dining hall is ever erected. Less than five percent of the students who signified their willingness to eat in the dining hall would also pay an additional fee to have their meals served in private rooms.