Education: Victory

Because they do not wish their alma mater turned into an advanced institution where everybody studies, studies, studies, most alumni of Stanford University were pleased last week. Acting President Robert Eckles Swain announced that the trustees had voted to abandon the plan which the late David Starr Jordan, Herbert Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur had favored: gradual elimination of the lower divisions of Stanford to make it a higher institution like Johns Hopkins.

Acting President Swain said the plan had been dropped by recommendation of Mr. Wilbur, Stanford's president in absentia. His announcement mentioned depression, lowered enrollments. But wise acres heard...

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