Education: Report Card

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¶ The Rockefellers were in a munificent mood last week. From John D. 3rd (Princeton '29) went $250,000 to Princeton University for a special fellowship program to enable selected government officials to travel or study at any college or university anywhere in the world. From John D. Jr. (Brown '97) went $100,000 to the Brown University Library in memory of Providence Lawyer Arthur M. Allen—Mr. Rockefeller's classmate and Mrs. Rockefeller's first husband.

¶ After a four-month study, eight eminent Yale alumni cleared their university of charges that it is fostering Communism or atheism in its classrooms. Not a single member of the faculty "is trying to undermine or destroy our society . . ." Furthermore, "the charge that Yale is encouraging irreligion or atheism is without foundation." The alumni added: "The business of a university is to educate, not to indoctrinate ... In the ideal university, all sides of any issue are presented . . .; all sides, not just those that may be currently popular with the trustees and the alumni . . . This is Yale's policy."