EXHIBITS STAY IN MUSEUMS

Valuable exhibits in the museums of the University will not be evacuated at present, according to Keyes D. Metcalf, director of Widener Library, who is in charge of the air raid precautions for the museums and libraries.

He said that the situation now does not warrant the huge expenditures that would be involved in order to move valuable show pieces and books to a place of safety farther inland. Not only would the cost be great, but the risk of breakage would probably be larger than the risk of having the objects demolished by bombs.

Bomb Risk Small

The area of military objectives in which Harvard is located is so large Metcalf claimed, that the chance of having any one non-military objective hit is quite small.

Complete plans, however, have been laid in the event that it is deemed necessary to remove the museum treasures from Cambridge. Lumber for packing cases and other essential materials for an evacuation have been collected, and it has been decided just where to send everything if a mass removal of valuable exhibits becomes necessary.

Even though the enemy starts raiding this area intensively, Metcalf declared, the cost and danger of removing the objects may not be commensurate with the expense involved. That is a situation for his committee to resolve when the time arises, he concluded.