Education: Student Prince

Surrounded by 3,000 cheering African subjects, Prince Karim, the Aga Khan IV, 21-year-old spiritual leader of 10 million Moslems, dedicated a new Nairobi hospital one day last week, then quietly announced his intention to return to Harvard. Before the end of his junior year, he had taken a leave of absence to attend the stricken Aga Khan III, then assumed the throne when his grandfather died in July 1957. Now, said he, "I decided I should lose no opportunity to equip myself for the future."

Harvard will welcome his return. Karim had been a good student. Like his younger brother Amyn, a...

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