Report Card

P: In the most flamboyant bit of horseplay since the first Harvardman swallowed a live goldfish in the thirties, two Harvard sophomores sat themselves down tete-`a-tete one morning last week and begin slapping each other in the face. Their purpose: to collect $128 in bets by emulating the 150-year-old example of two Russian yogis who had slapped away for 72 hours straight. Harvard's record, established last week: one slap every ten seconds for 48 hours, or 17,280 slaps in all.

P: After a careful survey of "rewards and punishments" in all publicly supported British schools, the National Foundation for Educational Research reported: of a sample 724 teachers questioned, 89.2% favored corporal punishment "as a last resort," 77.8% were for it "used with discretion," and 68.3% said that discretion should be left to the teachers.

P: Course of the week (for senior cadets majoring in civil engineering at V.M.I.): "Personal Relations." Its coverage: everything from a "Religion to Live By," with lectures by three clergymen (a Presbyterian, an Episcopalian and a Roman Catholic), to "A Wife as a Partner," with lectures by three wives.

P: Graduate of the week: Oscar L. Thompson, 45, a former longshoreman, hospital orderly, drug clerk, waiter and pantryman, who last week got his M.A. in zoology--the first Negro ever to get a degree from the University of Texas.

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