At the Universities

On the following campuses last week the following events made news: P: At Harvard, the Board of Overseers approved the election by the Faculty of Arts & Sciences of a council of 60 representatives, through which President Conant hopes to restore the faculty's voice in administrative affairs.

P: At the Institute for Advanced Study, haven for higher mathematicians in Princeton, receipt of an anonymous gift of $1,000,000 was announced. It will found a school of economics & politics at "an indefinite future date."

P: At Brown, Daily Herald announced that the majority of 10,000 students in 33 colleges had signed a petition, to be forwarded to Washington, demanding: 1) immediate U. S. adherence to the covenant of the League of Nations; 2) nationalization and international control of the manufacture and sale of armaments; 3) severance of U. S. commercial relations with belligerent nations.

P: At Temple, to find out how many students read the petitions they sign, someone circulated a petition for an extra holiday, ending: "We are resolved to spend the day in merrymaking and leisure, at which time each one will decapitate himself with extreme joy." Five hundred students dumbly signed.

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