College Humors

P: In Spokane, Drama Critic John Mason Brown told an audience of educators what years of low teacher pay has done to U.S. schools and colleges: "Only too often the finest member of the faculty is the janitor."

P: In Le Mars, Iowa, Western Union College got tired of the stale jokes, vexing confusions and crossed wires, after 48 years changed its name to Westmar College.

P: In Chicago, the 50th anniversary edition of Who's Who in America added up the educational achievements of its 41,682 entries. Conclusion: a man who went to a small college (enrollment below 300) is nearly four times as likely to make Who's Who as a man who went to a big one. In a preface, Novelist James M. Cain, a small-college man himself, thought he knew why. Who's Who had originally confined itself chiefly to "obscure clerics, do-gooders and professors." That policy was, he said, the way to win "the confidence of intellectuals."

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