Education: Report Card

¶ After looking over III Eastern campuses, the University of Vermont reported that a year in college (tuition, room and board) costs the average student $1,310.

¶ California Institute of Technology announced that graduates of the class of '52 are now earning $5 to $60 a month more than the starting salaries offered to the class of '51. New median salaries: for B.S.s, $340; for M.S.s, $405; for engineers, $475; for Ph.D.s, $495.

¶ In the current Saturday Review, Claude Fuess, onetime headmaster of Andover, gives his own thumbnail history of education during the last...

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