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	Thirty-nine Harvard students are arrested for riotous conduct, and a number are severely clubbed by police, in the wake of disturbances at a "midnight smoker and entertainment" at the University Theater, a brand-new motion-picture house on Church Street. (Judging the undergraduates more sinned against than sinning, President Lowell offered to provide bail for students who appealed their sentences.)
	The Graduate School of Education, with funding from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Science, is devising studies to determine the value of mechanical aids in classrooms. Experiments include the use of "talking films" in junior high schools in Lynn, Quincy, and Revere, Massachusetts, in an effort to improve science instruction. Excavators for the Semitic and Fogg Museums have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest map in the world. Found at the site of ancient Nuzi, in Iraq, the miniscule clay tablet dates back more than 4,000 years and measures less than three inches square.
	The Museum of Comparative Zoology adds to its exhibition of fossil "monsters" the almost eight-foot skeleton of a "long-spined reptile Dimetrodon," dating from roughly 225 million years ago. The specimen was discovered by a Harvard expedition digging in northwest Texas.
	To aid students bound for the armed forces, the University announces the option of a 12-month wartime schedule, including an intensified summer session of 12 weeks, to shorten the College program without lowering standards for degrees. Among student officers elected to the board of the Harvard Advocate is Norman K. Mailer '43.
	A committee has been appointed to recommend to the University a suitable means of commemorating Harvard's war dead. A Bulletin "agent" reports that graffiti have been scrawled on Claverly Hall: "Héloïse loves Abélard" on one corner, "Henry Tudor is insatiable" on another.
	The Faculty of Arts and Science approves a plan to provide group tutorials for sophomores and juniors in economics, English, government, history, and social relations--another step in the administration's effort to center more of the responsibility for the education of undergraduates in the residential Houses. In his annual report, President Conant warns that inflation has made Harvard's scholarship funds "dangerously inadequate," which poses a significant risk to the University's "role as a democratic national educational institution open to talent wherever found."
	The Bulletin's editors note the rare gift to Harvard of an endowed chair funded from abroad: a professorship established by the Aga Khan to support Iranian studies.
	As an experiment, Lamont Library will be open in the spring term to Radcliffe undergraduates and Harvard's 650 women graduate students. In an apparent and embarrassing first, not a single Harvard undergraduate wins a Rhodes Scholarship. Only a year earlier, 10 of the 32 scholarships went to Harvard students, a feat never before accomplished by any school.