Education: Growing Up in Miami

For most of its 35 years, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., turned out many expert playboys, few true scholars. But the University of Miami has lately grown up, both in scholarship and civic responsibility. This week a group of 50 Negroes, mostly undergraduate students, started summer session in the first lowering of the color bar at the largest independent school in the Southeast. In the fall, the bar will be lowered further: 26 more Negroes have been accepted so far, as a result of a board of trustees decision last January to open the school to all qualified...

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