Education: Rochester Debut

Into the University of Rochester's Eastman Theatre last week filed 41 college presidents, delegates from 160 educational institutions, several thousand alumni, parents, students. To the stage marched such dignitaries as Yale's President James Rowland Angell, Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds, Amherst's President Stanley King, Brown's President Clarence Augustus Barbour, Swarthmore's President Frank Aydelotte, Hobart's President Murray Bartlett, Radcliffe's President Ada Louise Comstock. To the stage also marched Alan Chester Valentine, a modest, square-built young man who has the look of a football player, no doctor's degree, a record of only seven years...

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