Seersucker Blooms Forth as Old Sol Pushes Mercury to Peak Recordings

More seersucker jackets came out of dark closest recesses yesterday as Cambridge continued to swelter through the warmest autumn week in local history. Boston weather bureau officials envisioned no relief for three or four days, although temperatures will probably not climb back to the record-breaking peak of 83 degrees on Saturday.

While no cases of heat prostration had been recorded at the Hygiene Department last night, undergraduates have reacted vigorously to the late-season madness by taking to the outdoors.

Charles River banks were lined with reclining students and accomplices, the Soldiers' Field tennis courts got even more play than usual, and Radcliffe girls staked out between-class plots in the Yard by brushing aside a heavy blanket of fallen leaves.

A late report last night revealed that four undergraduates were preparing to sleep out of doors in the Gore Hall quadrangle because of the unseasonable heat. They were: Hane H. Estin '49, Stephen F. Davis '49, Richard H. Cummings '48, and Dwight Lawrence '51, all of Winthrop House.

Although library officials reported a slackening of intellectual activity, local saloon keepers jingled cash-registers to an October high. "This is good beer weather," one purveyor said.