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P: In its annual survey of "the fertility of college graduates in the United States," the Population Reference Bureau, Inc. announced that alumni and alumnae are getting more reproductive every year. The men of '45 now average 1.73 children, which is a 70% jump over the men of '36 when they were ten years out. The women have 1.43 children, a gain of 51% over their counterparts of '36. Most prolific campus, as usual: Utah's Brigham Young University.

P:After questioning 80 large corporations, Bernard Haldane, president of Executive Job Counselors, reported the cost to industry of hiring the new college graduate. The recruiting of a liberal arts man costs $500, an engineer, $2,600. It costs $1,000 to train a graduate for the first year, and another $4,200 for his salary. Three out of ten graduates will either quit or change their jobs within their first twelve months. The expense to the nation's employers: $336,640,000 for the turnover, plus an additional $106,515,000 to find and train the necessary replacements.

P: Having announced a threeyear, $32,700,000 fund-raising campaign to raise faculty salaries and bolster his campus's teaching and research facilities, Chancellor Lawrence Kimpton of the University of Chicago had one more piece of news. "I have," he told the annual banquet for "C" men, "a petition signed by some 300 students who say they wish to see Chicago re-enter football ... A president of a large Midwestern public university told me the other day that we must be nuts to think of re-entering the game. But nuts or not, we are giving it thoughtful consideration at the present time."

P: With $200,000, donated in part by the Rockefeller Foundation and TIME Inc., Columbia University announced that a team of scholars from its faculty would now go to work on the first major edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton since that compiled by the late Henry Cabot Lodge and reprinted in 1904. Among the hitherto unpublished items the Columbia volumes will contain: documents written while Hamilton was Washington's aide-de-camp, his Cabinet papers, reports to Congress, and his draft of Washington's Farewell Address.

P: Student of the week: Margaret Gregory, 32-year-old daughter of show people, who until nine years ago had never had a day of formal schooling in her life. Then, after her discharge from the WACs in 1946, she took some special training at Endicott, N.Y.'s Harpur College, two semesters later enrolled in Buffalo's Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took her to get a B.A. after starting from scratch: three years.

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