Education: Going Concern

Last week Frank Aydelotte balanced his Swarthmore books. Dr. Aydelotte, who will leave Swarthmore College to be director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N. J. as soon as Swarthmore finds someone to fill his shoes (TIME, Oct. 23), made his last report to his board of managers, reviewed his 19 Swarthmore years.

Dr. Aydelotte had many homely achievements to report. He had rebuilt the bathrooms in old Wharton Hall, mapped the maze of pipes, wires, sewer mains, heating conduits under the campus. He had closed the college laundry and farm, saved...

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