Education: Report Card

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¶ By a vote of 1,128 to 1,120, students at Dartmouth College delivered an ultimatum: by 1960, fraternities must either ban from their charters all discriminatory clauses based on "race, religion, or national origin"—or get off the campus.

¶ Chairman George Vardaman of the general education division of Denver University's College of Business announced that he had a new sort of champion among his students: George Murch. who may well be the world's fastest reader. Murch's normal pace: 5,000 words a minute. Top speed: 8,000 words (or Gone With the Wind in an hour). The average reader's speed: 250 words a minute.

¶ In a public lecture in Durham, N.C., Novelist Aldous Huxley took a look at his own topflight British education (Eton and Oxford), and wondered how he stood. It could, said he, "do nothing better for my body than Swedish drill and compulsory football, nothing better for my character than prizes, punishments, sermons and pep talks, and nothing better for my soul than hymns before bedtime and after breakfast."