¶At a meeting in honor of Robert Gordon Sproul's 25th year as president of the University of California, his second in command at Berkeley, Chancellor Clark Kerr, announced some cheery, silver-anniversary news. A wealthy banker, who insisted on remaining anonymous, has bequeathed the university $2,750,000 to start an Institute for Basic Research in Science with much the same sort of ideals as those of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Its main purpose: "to discover and encourage the work of individuals of great talent and promise."
¶Alarmed by the fact that U.S. colleges seem to be turning out only about half...
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