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P: After questioning 1200 colleges and universities with teacher-training courses, the National Education Association reported that the supply of new high-school teachers has been steadily dropping at an alarming rate: since 1950 the number has been cut 41.7%. Among the fields hardest hit: mathematics, down 50.6%; science in general, down 56.3%. Meanwhile, said the N.E.A., U.S. elementary schools need 85,000 new teachers. The number they will probably get from colleges and universities this June: only 45,000.

P: In Washington, D.C. School Superintendent Hobart M. Corning announced that the nation's capital would waste no time obeying the U.S. Supreme Court decision on segregation. Subject to school-board approval, he said, more than 2,300 Negro elementary and junior high-school pupils as well as a possible 300 senior high-school pupils will be transferred to white schools next fall.

P: Said Harvard's President Nathan Pusey at the National Press Club: "The idea that a scholar must be free to follow his own hunches in pursuing his special studies is not the whim of some modern educator. It comes down to us through the whole history of learning . . . Certainly it is not . . . a question of academic 'privilege.' A scholar or scientist has an obligation to investigate and report new ideas in his field, even when his conclusions may be unpopular among the general public . . . He usually works alone without much attention or encouragement from others. But it is of the greatest importance that he know . . . that whatever he finds and reports, within the limits of his own knowledge and skill, will not penalize him as a man. If he sees men around him dismissed from their positions . . . because of popular clamor, or on anything less than the most solid proof, it would not be surprising if he were then to shirk his own basic responsibility in the field of learning to press on."

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