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P: Board Chairman Frank Abrams of the Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), a man who thinks it is high time that U.S. corporations give their share to U.S. higher education, announced that a new Council for Financial Aid to Education had been formed to do some persuading. The council, he thought, would get a good reception from business. Its members: former Chairman Irving Olds of U.S. Steel, Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors, Chairman Walter Paepcke of the Container Corp., Chairman Henning W. Prentis Jr. of Armstrong Cork, Frank Abrams.

P: After losing almost all its seminary faculty because of its refusal to admit Negro divinity students (TIME, Nov. 17) the University of the South in Sewanee Tenn., ran into more trouble last week. It had no sooner announced the appointment of a new seminary dean and four new faculty replacements than the Very Rev. James A Pike, Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral ol St. John the Divine, bluntly refused to accept an honorary Sewanee D.D. degree. "I could not in conscience," he said, "receive a doctorate in the white divinity which Sewanee apparently is prepared to offer the church hereafter."

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