Report Card

P: In Boston, Harvard's Dr. Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of physics, and ex-Communist Leon J. Kamin, 26, onetime Harvard teaching fellow, were indicted for contempt of the U.S. Senate, i.e., for refusing to answer questions put by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's subcommittee last winter (TIME, Jan. 25).

P: President Raymond Walters of the University of Cincinnati reported that, for the second consecutive year, enrollments in U.S. colleges are up. In 801 institutions surveyed, the number of full-time students has increased 6.8%. Total 1954-55 college enrollment: 1,895,280.

P: Addressing a group of local industrial bigwigs, the University of Chicago's Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton chided them and his colleagues for indiscriminate giving and receiving: "It has been our pleasant custom in the past, like the chorus girl, to accept anything but abuse, and we are paying a high price for our generosity in accepting generosity . . . We have accepted scholarships that cost us more to administer than we received in tuition income; we have accepted buildings that drained away . . . our precious free money ... These [restricted] gifts can break us or corrupt us or both . . ."

P: In Manhattan, Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey proudly announced a $450,000 gift spread among 138 privately supported colleges and universities (e.g., Duke, Smith, Yale, Yeshiva). Only restriction on the awards (biggest $5,000): they must be used solely to finance undergraduate study.

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