Beatley Speaks at 'Cliffe Ceremony

At its 68th commencement yesterday Radclige graduated 188 seniors, including four who received degrees summa cum laude.

The audience assembled at the Sanders Theatre rites heard Bancroft Beatley '15, president of Simmons College, urge that the graduates help improve the nation's public schools. Pointing out "the climate of the postwar world," Beatley said, "What happens to the minds of our great school population, what their experiences in our democracy are, are matters of first importance."

Beatley outlined as a program for encouraging better public education: 1) getting the right people elected to school committees; 2) creating public opinion supporting good schools; and 3) special community projects.

He warned the graduates that a democracy cannot possibly thrive without educating all its people.