1949 | Education
Education
Eleanor Roosevelt expresses support in her newspaper column for pending legislation that would provide $300 million in federal aid to public schools. New York's Cardinal Spellman, 60, opposes the measure because it would exclude parochial and other private schools, he calls Mrs. Roosevelt's position "unworthy of an American mother," but Mrs. Roosevelt immediately reiterates her support of the Establishment clause in the Constitution separating Church and state.
Chiba University is founded at Tokyo.
Tokyo University admits women for the first time since its founding in 1877.
Harvard Law School announces October 9 that it will begin admitting women.