Report Card

P: Bequest of the week: $1,000,000 to Princeton, from a millionaire Clearfield,-Pa. coal dealer who never went to college. Only stipulation in the will: that the money be used for some purpose that will bear its donor's name, Abram K. Wright. P:The Winter Haven, Fla. High School faculty decided not to let their students appear on the same stage with students from Jewett (Negro) High School for a Junior Chamber of Commerce speech contest. Subject for the contestants: "I speak for Democracy."

P:After looking into their library records, Librarian Wyman W. Parker found that University of Cincinnati students took out an average of only 5.6 unassigned books last year, and compared today's reading habits with those of another student whose library record he had checked up on: Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes, 19 President of the U.S., who signed out 36 outside books a year during his four years at Kenyon College (1838-42). P:Said Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College: "I don't blame youth for its present moral confusion as much as I do its elders and educators. There does exist a moral idealism and intellectualism in youth which is waiting to be brought out, but the colleges are not doing it."*

P:Southern Methodist University's athletic department, which consistently makes money from football tickets, last week turned over $100,000 to the S.M.U. Press, which consistently loses money on its scholarly and regional books and the quarterly Southwest Review. And, said Athletic Director Matty Bell, "we aren't going to tell you how to run your business, as some of these guys that support foot-sail do."

For further opinions on youth, see p. 46.

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