Education: Report Card

¶The nation's commander in chief took the affirmative on the currently hot question of collegiate debates. Though they are members of the armed services, said Dwight Eisenhower, the cadets and midshipmen of West Point and Annapolis are also students. They should therefore .be allowed to debate: "Resolved, that the United States should extend diplomatic recognition to the Communist government of China." At week's end, however, the academies' ban still stood.

¶new plan for helping out the nation's colleges and universities was announced by the General Electric Co. From now on, if any of the estimated 23,000 college graduates at G.E. want to...

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