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"To vagabond," i.e. "to rove around classrooms where one does not belong," has entered the undergraduate vernacular. The Bulletin reports a noticeable increase in the practice during the fall, in part because Crimson editors have begun printing daily lists of lectures deemed to be of general interest.
The Memorial Church, built in honor of the Harvard dead of "the World War," is dedicated on the morning of Armistice Day.
History instructor John K. Fairbank, in a radio talk, urges American support for British efforts to help the Chinese repel Japanese aggression.
Thirty-nine members of the Harvard Auxiliary Fire Department, organized to supplement the regular Cambridge department in case of fire from enemy air attack, receive their badges at a special dinner with University officials and Cambridge firemen.
Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges have formalized arrangements to permit "joint instruction [of undergraduate men and women] in all cases where separate instruction would be wasteful of Faculty personnel." Most freshmen courses and all undergraduate activities outside the classroom continue to be separately organized.
A poll taken by the Harvard-Radcliffe Affiliation Committee reveals that only nine of 33 Harvard undergraduate groups oppose merger with their Radcliffe counterparts, whereas 10 of the 15 Radcliffe groups polled are opposed--proof, according to the "Undergraduate" column, "that those Radcliffe girls who wanted to join Harvard groups [have] done so a long time ago, and that those Radcliffe groups which are still independent have neither desire nor intention of merging...."
Harvard Student Agencies Inc. has been chartered as a private nonprofit Massachusetts corporation. HSA plans to work closely with Harvard financial-aid officers to assist needy students by encouraging and helping to organize student-conducted business enterprises.
A bequest from bacteriologist and immunologist William A. Hinton '05, M.D. '12, Harvard's first black professor, has set up a Dwight D. Eisenhower Scholarship Fund for graduate students at Harvard, to recognize the notable accomplishments of the former president's administration toward acceptance of the principle of equal opportunity for all.
Grants from the National Institutes of Health, Education, and Welfare have helped the Medical School establish a division of mathematical biology, in part to investigate the role of the high-speed computer in problems of medical diagnosis and research.
Disciplinary action, ranging from probation to admonition, has been taken against 245 undergraduates for their part in the blockade of a Dow Chemical Company recruiter. President Nathan M. Pusey condemns attempts "to misrepresent the issue" as one "concerned with the use of napalm or the war in Vietnam," rather than a matter of students "[restraining] the freedom of expression or movement of others who may not agree with them."
