The banning of the Lampoon, two giant riots, and the opening of the $3,000,000 Graduate Center highlighted an active fall semester at the University. Students were certain that this would be the last normal year at Harvard for some time to come, but concern over the Korean War did not stop most of the usual College activities. The following is a chronological list of the major events of the first half of the year:

September 25--Cambridge City Council orders "Reducators" list of 68 members of the faculty placed on public file; list subsequently dies in hands of City Solieitor John Daly.

September 26--Maids go on five-day week.

October 6--President Conant dedicates Graduate Center of seven dermiteries and the Harkness Commons--the largest construction at the University since the Houses were built.

October 7--Columbia defeats Crimson varsity 28 to 7 in football opener.

October 10--Inter-House Committee asks extension of House room privileges for women until midnight for the Saturdays of the Yale and Dartmouth weekends.

October 17--Graduate Center parietal rules revised to allow women in dorms until 12:30 on Friday and Saturday nights.

Faculty votes against mid-term grades.

Radcliffe Plans Graduate Center

October 18--Radcliffe plans $3,500,000 graduate center, needs funds to begin construction.

Chafee, MacLeish, Schlesinger head Civil Liberties Appeal, urge repeal of McCarran Act and election of congressmen who opposed bill.

October 23--John Reed Club gives up charter for fear of "jeopardizing" members, still actively functioning.

October 25--University announces appointment of Ralph Bunche as professor of Government.

October 28--Lampoon parody, the Pontoon, banned as Cambridge police collect all copies from local newsstands.

November 2--College announces plans for building of new General Education building to contain two medium-sized lecture rooms, one with revolving stage for science demonstrations.