Opportunities for Negroes in education are improving steadily, Edward A. Weeks, Jr. '22, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly and speaker at this week's Harvard Educational Conference, reported yesterday.
Though enthusiastic about the election of Walter C. Carrington '52 as third marshal of his class, Levi Jackson's captaincy of the '49 Yale football team, and Nell Cochrane, president of the Smith College student council, he remarked that the South is still sadly lacking in educational equality.
"Harvard," he said, "has always helped worthwhile students, but now, more than ever before, it is making a college education available to them." He continued, however, that not nearly enough Negroes are applying for graduate work; the need for doctors is urgent with at least twice as many openings as men to fill them.
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