Education: Report Card

¶ After mulling the matter over for more than a year, students of Williams College voted 509 to 390 against making their fraternities open to all. Instead of taking in everyone who wants to join, Williams fraternities will go on just as before, leaving the usual unwanted minority to the non-fraternal Garfield Club. ¶Gift of the week: 50 Edgar Allan Poe items to the University of Virginia Library, from Manhattan Steamship Executive Clifton Waller Barrett (ex-'20). Among the treasures of Alumnus Poe, who left the university in 1826 because of a quarrel with his foster father: first editions of all...

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