Yard Police Keep Vigil for Vandals

The entire University police force ducked in the dark corners of the Yard last night and this morning, waiting for a return of Brown's vandals, while in Providence local police waited for Harvard retaliation. But not a creature stirred in one of the sleepiest pre-football nights the Ivy League has seen.

Chief Alvin R. Randall announced yesterday that his University police would be out in full strength, and last night in the Yard it seemed as though there were more blue-coats and plaincothes-men than students.

Urge Leniency

Meanwhile, six students yesterday wired the Brown Daily Herald that they consider Brown's suspension of 12 students Thursday "too severe" a punishment. The Brown men had smeared Widener's columns with brown paint, a stunt which the telegraphers called "an obvious juvenile prank."

Signers of the message included Halo Knight '50, Edward F. Burko '50, Donald L. Bornstein '50, Melvin Zurier '50, Richard Wolch '51, and Charles West '50.