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P: In cooperation with 45 privately endowed colleges across the U.S., Bethlehem Steel Co. announced a novel way of helping higher education. Henceforth, every time a graduate from one of the 45 colleges takes Bethlehem's famed "Loop Course" for administrative and technical training, his alma mater will get a gift of $3,000. That, said Bethlehem, is to help pay the college back for what it spends on giving a student four years of education. P:Lincoln University near Oxford, Pa., the first Negro institution in the world to award collegiate degrees, decided on a shift of policy. Since Negroes have gained admittance to so many white campuses recently, said President Horace Mann Bond, Lincoln (enrollment: 315) will reciprocate, open its doors to "all races." P:Resignation of the week: Earl J. McGrath, 50, as U.S. Commissioner of Education (after four years of service). Though due to be replaced anyway, McGrath had his own reason for quitting: the 10% slash in his proposed $88,876,370 budget is "indefensible . . ."

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