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...State Department will soon release an "agreement in principle" with the Soviet Government, under which Harvard and other American universities will be able to arrange exchanges with the Universities of Moscow and Leningrad, the CRIMSON learned recently...
...about giving the children of the proletariat first crack at higher education, those actually getting it are the children of "Party officials, civil servants, officers of the armed forces and other elite groups ... A French student who attended Moscow University in 1948 and a German student who enrolled at Leningrad University in 1953 estimated that some 50% of the student body were of such background while well under 10% were distinctly of working-class origin...
Merrill said that no American answer will be announced until all 52 points of the recent Russian note can be dealt with at once. The exchange suggestion is one of the 52, and includes a plan for a similar setup between Columbia and Leningrad Universities...
Merrill also disclosed that the State Department hopes to extend the plan to permit other universities to participate. In Russia only Moscow and Leningrad Universities are open to foreign students, but Merrill hopes that the Russians will agree to send delegations to as many American schools as are equipped to handle them...
...accounts of Russian science. Nuclear Physicist Donald Hughes of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, makes a somewhat different minority report. Invited by the Russians, he spent two weeks in Russia last July, where he lectured on his specialty, neutron physics. He visited six laboratories in Moscow and one in Leningrad, talked through interpreters with many Russian scientists and had a good chance to examine their scientific apparatus...