Education: Report Card

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¶ Plan of the week : a Pope Pius XII memorial library, containing in microfilm the 50,000 manuscript volumes of the Vatican, to be built at a cost of between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 on the campus of St. Louis University.

¶ Appointment of the week: Douglas M. Knight, 32, to succeed Nathan Pusey as twelfth president of little (800 students) Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis. A Yale Ph.D. and authority on Alexander Pope, Knight joined the Yale faculty in 1946, rose to become assistant professor of English. With his new appointment, he can expect to go far in the academic world. Among Lawrence faculty men who have: Henry M. Wriston, president of Brown University, Victor Butterfield, president of Wesleyan University, John S. Millis, president of Western Reserve —and Pusey, now president of Harvard.