Education: At the Universities

On the following campuses last week the following events made news:

¶ At Harvard, the dean's office prepared to make Repeal mean Prohibition for freshmen. Revealed were the expulsions of three tippling freshmen (one a Harvard professor's son), the recent sporadic curfew-closing of all but two Yard gates, at which homing freshmen have been eyed, sniffed. Authorities have warned certain tipplers that liquor on their breaths or their presence in liquor-serving establishments may mean immediate expulsion. Dean Arthur Chester Hanford declared these measures were not extraordinary, scoffed at rumors of possible raids on freshman rooms in Yard dormitories.

¶ At Johns Hopkins, Dean Edward Wilbur Berry remarked: "I don't think it's any of a faculty's business how much the students drink—so long as they keep the name of the college out of it."

¶ At Yale, Paul Mellon, 26, only son of Andrew William Mellon, was appointed an associate fellow of Berkeley College. Poet Robert Frost was appointed an associate fellow of Pierson College. They will visit, hold discourse with College masters, fellows and students.

¶ At Minnesota, for the first time in the university's history, a student was exempted from compulsory military training on the ground of conscientious objection. Last winter Freshman Ray W. Ohlson, 22, laid down his rifle, walked out of his R. O. T. C. class, told authorities who threatened to expel him: "I want, some day, to teach others how to live—not how to kill." President Lotus Delta Coffman, who interviewed Student Ohlson three times, warned that his exemption established no policy.

¶ At Harvard, new President James Bryant Conant broke his first tradition with a plan to make the Arts & Sciences faculty a republic instead of a pure democracy. As the faculty has grown beyond the 300-mark, its attendance at weekly meetings has dwindled. President Conant wants a representative assembly of 40 to 60 chosen from all departments, all ranks.

¶ At Willamette, protesting against faculty fun-damping, students voted 5 to 1 for dances and card parties, against "quiet afternoon teas of the fireside type."

¶ At Butler, it was announced that baled straw to be used for making archery targets, bedding down the football field and caretakers' horses, would be accepted at $5 to $6 per ton in payment of tuition.