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P: After mulling the matter over for more than a year, students of Williams College voted 509 to 390 against making their fraternities open to all. Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. P:Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all his books, such manuscripts as a letter to Washington Irving, one of eleven existing copies of Tamerlane and Other Poems--all making Virginia's sizable collection the biggest in the world. P: New York University,which has one of the biggest adult education programs (6,000 students, 285 courses), announced its spring-term smorgasbord. Among the courses adults can pick: How to Read and Think; How to Understand Paintings ; Contemporary Events: How to Read the News, February-May 1952; How to Buy Antique Accessories. P: Purchase of the week--by the University of California at Los Angeles: the famed 12,000-volume Victorian literature collection once owned by British Publisher Michael Sadleir. Items: hundreds of rarer "three-decker" novels and yellowbacks by such oldtime bestsellers as "Captain" Frederick Marryat (Mr. Midshipman Easy), Mrs. Henry (East Lynne) Wood and Edward Bulwer-Lytton. P: New York CitySchool Superintendent William. Jansen announced that, beginning next fall, his high schools will have the most lifelike atomic-energy classes ever, complete with real radioisotopes imported from the Atomic Energy Commission. Next month New York teachers will go in for some futuramic training with the course in "Radioisotopes--a New Aid to High School Science Teachers."

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