Trick-or-Treating, Drinking Herald Halloween Here

Sixty Cambridge elementary school children descended on Kirkland House yesterday afternoon, starting off the Halloween weekend with a "Boo."

The children who attend kindergarten through eighth grade at the Graham/Parks school, were invited by Kirkland's House and Neighborhood Development (HAND) committee to visit a student-run haunted house and to trick or treat at Kirkland entries.

Other House HAND committees will sponsor similar events in the next few days, Currier House is holding a costume making party for a group of children from the Jefferson park housing projects on Sunday afternoon.

Winthrop and Eliot are both organizing Halloween parties at Cambridge elementary schools on Monday.

Pumpk-in-related festivities have been going on since Thursday, when the Freshman Council announced the results of its pumpkin-carving contest. Of the 19 process-group entrants, a Hurlbut group walked off with the prize for the most amusing pumpkin, a rendition of the Harvard square "instant astrologer."

Other notable entries were a punk pumpkin complete with a safety pin in its ear, and a pumpkin in labeled "Sca-Ri-Tas,"

The weekend will be a great one for the party goer. The Freshmen Council kicked off the party weekend with its Halloween dance last night. All House will be having some sort of Halloween celebration Lowell House is expecting up to 800 people to its costume party, which house committee Chairman Judith S. Kessler '84 said "traditionally has been the largest Halloween party on campus."

Dunster House will continue its tradition of "trick or drink" on Monday night. Each entry prepares an alcohol-based concoction and offers it to the treaters from others entryways, a Dunster senior explained "Everyone has their favorite entryway so you keep going back." She added, "and your Halloween gets off to a roaring start."