Education: Sanctuary

If a committee of famed football coaches were to call on the average U. S. college president and offer him as a student a halfback like Red Grange, the president would be surprised but would be glad to accept the student tuition-free. Last week a group of 55 famed U. S. educators and scientists wrote to 500 U. S. college presidents offering them not athletes, but the pick of refugee scholars from Germany, Italy and Franco Spain.

Leader of the group was Columbia University's top-notch Chemist Harold C. Urey, discoverer of "heavy water." Other...

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