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P: Mary Ann Bonalsky, 16. a senior at the Holy Rosary Academy at Union City, N.J., sent off a letter to her Congressman with a tradition-shattering request: an application for an appointment to Annapolis. After all, argued Mary Ann, "we have equal rights with the male, and as far as intelligence is concerned, we are considered just as good and even better by learned men." Far from dismissing the letter, Representative T. James Tumulty of New Jersey said he would ask the Secretary of the Navy for advice. "There is," said he, "a certain logic in her stand, but there are also some practical difficulties to be considered."

P: The National Education Association issued its latest report on the average salaries of college and university staffmen: presidents, $11,314; deans, $7,495; full professors, $7,076; business managers, $6,682; associate professors, $5,731; assistant professors, $4,921; instructors, $4,087.

P: A team of seven educators hired by the Nevada legislature to investigate the University of Nevada's high-handed President Minard Stout, whose attempt to have a professor fired for protesting against the lowering of admission requirements resulted in the resignation of six others (TIME, June 15, 1953), finally handed down its verdict. "A state university," said the committee, "is neither an army nor a factory; its president is neither a general nor a businessman. The lack of respect for the faculty under the present administration has not only impaired faculty morale and effectiveness, but has damaged the national reputation of the university itself." Recommended the educators: "the restoration of faculty participation in the making of educational policy."

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