Education: Report Card

¶ London's Tory newspapers happily noted last week that the old school tie had come into its own again in Britain. In the outgoing Labor cabinet, only five out of 37 ministers had gone to Eton, Harrow or Winchester, only 15 to Oxford or Cambridge. With Old Harrovian Winston Churchill back in power, His Majesty's ministers now boast 21 old Eton, Harrow or Winchester men; 27 Oxon. or Cantab.

¶ The University of Minnesota was in an uproar over a faculty ban on broadcasting the address of a speaker invited by the Student Republican Club. The speaker: Wisconsin's Red-hunting Senator Joseph...

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