Education: Report Card

¶President Wilson H. Elkins of the University of Maryland announced that he was wasting no time in correcting the glaring faults found by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools (TIME, Jan. 31). By last week he had 1) formed a 20-man committee to find ways to increase faculty participation in university affairs, 2) appointed an eight-man committee to make a study of the needs of the medical school, 3) asked the legislature for $2,200,000 for a new college library, 4) requested another $150,000 for a new medical library, and 5) made plans to divert $10,000 in athletic scholarships...

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