"Sex by the Yard"

Making its way around U. S. campuses like the spark in a sputtering fuse, the venereal disease crusade arrived last week at Harvard. In a cool, impersonal manner that contrasted with the boisterous brothel-photographing and madame-interviewing technique of University of Illinois' Daily Illini (TIME, Nov. 1), Harvard's oldest publication, the Harvard Advocate, presented an article on Sex by the Yard with the co-operation of the university's hygiene department. Salient facts:

P: Last year one man with syphilis and eight with gonorrhea came to the hygiene department for help.

P:Boston's foremost specialist in venereal diseases, believed by the hygiene department to treat about half the Harvardmen afflicted with these maladies, treated 21 Harvardmen last year.

P: Best available estimate is that 50 venereal cases occur at Harvard annually.

The hygiene department invites Harvardmen to come to it for prophylaxis and diagnosis, sends them to capable physicians for treatment, tells no tales. Its head is friendly, boyish-looking Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, who thinks that the old compulsory hygiene course at Harvard (known to undergraduates as Smut 1) is well buried, that more hygiene can be taught by "daily contacts with the men." Hygienist Bock's chief worry is not the indiscreet ardor of Harvardmen (less than 1% of whom contract venereal disease) but "Harvard indifference toward human personality."

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