Education: Final Exams

Despite his success at breaking down the legal wall of segregation that has long surrounded higher education in Texas, Heman Sweatt, 39, the first Negro admitted to the University of Texas law school, found the study of law a much tougher proposition. Last year he flunked out. But Dean Page Keeton gave Sweatt permission to try once more. Last week, in make-up exams, Sweatt failed again.

Disappointed at his failure, Heman Sweatt is still sure that his time has not been wasted. Said he: "There were no incidents. I may have lost my personal ambition, but I think the manner in which...

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