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P:The typical schoolmarm fifteen years ago was her own janitor, boarded with a local family, earned $867 a year. After questioning 4,200 rural schoolteachers, the National Education Association decided that times are changing. In 1952 she was apt to have her own home, drive an automobile, make $2,484. Today's teachers, male or female, have also shown progress in another respect. "In 1936-37," said the N.E.A., "from 26.6 to 31.8% . . . were married. Now only 25.3% are single." P: To provide that air of studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started selling a strange new item: "Dusty Bucks" --white shoes that had been specially treated to look ever so slightly worn and ever so slightly dirty. P: Within a few days of each other, Fisk and Howard Universities became the first and second Negro universities to install chapters of Phi Beta Kappa. P: Appointment of the Week: Courtney Craig Smith, 36, to succeed John W. Nason (now head of the Foreign Policy Association) as ninth president of Swarthmore College. A graduate of Harvard. Smith studied 17th century English literature as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, returned to Harvard for his Ph.D., in 1946 joined the faculty of Princeton University. When Swarthmore found him, he was American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees -- a position he took over from Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore's seventh president and grand old man. P: Resignation of the Week : Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Arthur H. Compton as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the pioneers of atomic research, Compton will remain at the university as Distinguished Service Professor of natural philosophy, devote his life to studying "the relation of science to human affairs."

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