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Last summer 13 experts grappled with this prospect in a two-week symposium at Amherst College's Merrill Center for Economics in Southampton, N.Y. This month McGraw-Hill Book Co., sponsor of the meeting, published the results in a 304-page report (Financing Higher Education: 1960-70). Among the conclusions: 1) U.S. colleges will need 50% more teachers (450,000); 2) a full professor's salary must be doubled to an average $17,000. Key guesstimate: while U.S. higher education now spends $3.6 billion annually, by 1970 it will need at least $9.8 billion...
Most ambitious plunge of all is Encyclopedia of World Art, announced by McGraw-Hill. Undertaken jointly with Rome's Institute for Cultural Collaboration, it is probably the greatest venture ever in art publications. The first huge volume (Aalto to Asia Minor), issued simultaneously in English and Italian will be in the stores next month. The scholarship, supplied by contributors from 18 countries, is outstanding, the 542 page-plates excellent (98 pages are in color). Plans call for four volumes a year until by the end of the 15th volume, 9,000,000 words and 7,000 plates will have...
...TREATMENT MAN (325 pp.)-William Wiegand-McGraw-Hill...
EDISON (511 pp.)-Matthew Josephson-McGraw-Hill...
...president of Harvard was his interest in education-notably public schools. Among besieged educators, he was well known (and trusted) long before he became U.S. High Commissioner and Ambassador to West Germany (1953-57). Among plain citizens he has won towering respect since The American High School Today (McGraw-Hill; $1) was published early this year. This fall Conant embarks on a second study: the junior high school. Nobody has already done more to convince Americans that high schools can improve-"with no radical change...