Report Card

P: Annoyed by a university decision to abolish janitor service after this year, 500 Princeton students poured out of their rooms one night last week, set off a barrage of firecrackers, chanted their way into town ("We Want Janitors!"), finally staged a mass sit-down strike in front of Nassau Hall. It was a mighty mutiny, the university admitted, but not mighty enough: Old Nassau's dormitory janitors were gone for good.

P: Chemist Dwight F. Mowery Jr. of Trinity College, Hartford (Conn.) announced that he could now do for the nation's teachers what the washing machine did for U.S. housewives. He had devised a special circular slide rule which can average 20 examination grades at a time, cut an average day's marking from eight hours to two.

P: After a poll of undergraduates, the San Jose (Calif.) State College Spartan Daily reported that more than half the students admitted that they had cheated, nearly half said they would do it again.

P: Gift of the week--to Princeton's Archives of American letters: 400,000 documents from the files of Manhattan's Henry Holt publishing company. The files cover 86 years of literary history, include letters to, from and about such famed Holt authors as Thomas Hardy, William James and Henry Adams (who solemnly wrote: "With the year 1890, I shall retire from authorship ... It has cost me about $100,000.").

P: Appointment of the week: John Tyler Caldwell, 40, to succeed Lewis Webster Jones, new president of Rutgers, as president of the University of Arkansas. A Princeton Ph.D. in Politics, Caldwell has been president of Alabama College for Women since 1947.

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