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P: At Hofstra College in Hempstead, L.I., the Crown and Lance fraternity planned its "Hell Week" hazing with care. After a nod of approval from their faculty sponsor, the fun-loving brothers daubed the heads and bellies of seven blindfolded pledges with a noxious mixture of ketchup, mustard, egg yolk and water. The pledges promptly broke out in skin blisters ; one got a badly burned eye. Suspecting that heavyhanded undergraduates had fouled up the recipe with lye or turpentine, the interfraternity council decreed that Hofstra will hereafter have no hazing.

P: At the College of the University of Chicago, Dean F. Champion Ward trotted out statistics to prove that Robert Maynard Hutchins' ten-year-old "Great Books" curriculum is a success. Students who have set their own pace through a Hutchins-type education, said Dean Ward, excel in almost every field. In nationwide graduate-record exams, 99% of the Chicago scholars placed in the upper third of the group. In the biological sciences, arts, vocabulary and social studies, 98% got better-than-median grades. Some 86% were above the median in physical sciences, literature, general mathematics and effective expression.

P: Fired because they refused to testify whether ,or not they were or had ever been Communists, a group of New York schoolteachers placed a want ad in the Nation:

TEACHERS FIRED FOR DEFENDING FREEDOM in New York schools seek employment or business opportunities. Research workers, economists, linguist, scientist, mathematicians, artist, writers, tutors, office workers. Mature, graduate degrees. Will consider employment any field offering opportunity, growth and advancement.

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