Report Card

P: For those worried about the small number of bright pupils going into science or engineering, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation had some encouraging news of the 5,000 semifinalists in the corporation's first annual talent search: 56% of the boys intend to become scientists or engineers. Another hopeful sign: 36% of the girls intend to become teachers. One boy announced that he wanted to become a general.

P:After a survey of half the school population in the state, the Kansas state board of health told just how perilous life among the school-aged can be: "On the average, one school-age Kansan was killed every 2 1/4 days of the year." Chances were 4 to 1 that the victim was a boy. Main causes of death: traffic accidents (60%), drowning (8%), firearms (6%).

P: Gift of the week: to Chatham College, formerly Pennsylvania College for Women, $3,500,000 from the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. The gift, which must be matched by July 1957, will go into permanent endowment.

P: Appointment of the week: Psychologist George D. Stoddard, 58, former president of the University of Illinois, to succeed Ernest O. Melby, 64, next September as dean of New York University's School of Education.

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