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P: In the wake of a similar decision by the Louisiana legislature (TIME, July 19), Governor Hugh White of Mississippi announced that he too would lean on the police power of his state to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation in the public schools. "I am," said he, "going to see this thing through to make certain that Negroes never enter the white schools."

P: Appointment of the week: the Very Rev. William A. Donaghy, 44, to succeed the Very Rev. John A. O'Brien as president of the Jesuits' iii-year-old College of the Holy Cross (enrollment 1,850) in Worcester, Mass. A white-maned man with a taste for track, poetry and Beethoven ("After Beethoven and Toscanini, what is there?"), Donaghy joined the Society of Jesus after his sophomore year at Holy Cross, took his M.A. in 18th century poetry at St. Louis University, served as associate editor of the Roman Catholic magazine America, for the last six years has been Superior of the Campion Hall retreat in North Andover, Mass. His philosophy of education: "It must tell the student what to be as well as what to do. It fails if it merely fills the head with theory and fits the hand to technique, while neglecting altogether his heart. It is not sufficient to teach him to do well and make a fortune, while keeping a resolute silence on his destiny to do good and save his soul."

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