Report Card

P: After listening to testimony for six months and plowing through thousands of pages of reports, a "select committee" of the House found that the nation's educational and philanthropic foundations have made a good record in resisting Communist infiltration. "A few small foundations," said the committee, "became captives of the Communist Party. Here and there a foundation board included a Communist or a Communist sympathizer . . . There remains the ugly, unalterable fact that Alger Hiss became the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . . . that Frederick Vanderbilt Field became the secretary of the American Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations." But the foundations' guilt, the committee noted, was "principally [in] indulging the same gullibility which infected far too many of our loyal and patriotic citizens . . . The mistakes they made are unlikely to be repeated."

P: Gift of the week: $3,950,000 left to educational, cultural and civic organizations by Mrs. Thomas W. Lament, widow of the late J. P. Morgan's partner, Thomas W. Lament, longtime board chairman of Morgan's banking house. Largest slice of the bequest ($2,950,000) went to women's colleges because "women's education is just as important for our country as men's education." Items: to Smith College, $1,200,000 as a "token of my special indebtedness for four happy and stimulating years there"; to Barnard College, $500,000 for being "the leading women's college of my home city"; to Wellesley, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe, Mount Holyoke, Vassar and Columbia, $250,000 each; to the Harvard Divinity School, $250,000 on condition that it raises or appropriates another $4,000,000; to Union Theological Seminary, $250,000 "to halt the rising tide of secularism in the world today"; to the New School for Social Research, "a pioneer in the field of adult education," $100,000; to the Academy of American Poets, $100,000 to "stimulate the writing of more good poetry in the United States"; to the American Civil Liberties Union, $25,000 because "I believe, with the Union, that the true American tradition of democracy means civil liberties, for everyone, and nothing less"; to the American Friends Service Committee. $25,000 for its "fine and unselfish program of social action throughout the world."

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