Mischief of the pillar painting or statue lifting sort by Harvard men in New Haven next weekend will be frowned upon by the University to the extent of severing of connections, Dean Bender said yesterday.

Such disciplinary action for defacement of property has been standard procedure at Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, and Harvard for several years. No students have been dropped here for vandalism, however, since before the war.

Bender noted that Harvard men have long been "very sensible about deliberate property damage." If destruction results from accident rather than a premeditated plan, he added, the University's wrath will take less severe forms.

West Rock Painted

In 1947 a large H appeared on West Rock at New Haven shortly before game time, but the daubers were never apprehended. Expressions of patriotism for the old school on spots where they can easily be removed are not objected to.

Rules for cutting classes on Friday will be no different than usual. Saturday classes will meet at the pleasure of the instructor but no students, even if on probation, will be penalized for cutting.

Students at Brown and MIT were suspended last year for such pre-game playfulness such as painting Widener's granite pillars and lining the Soldiers Field turf with explosives.