Jan. 14 elephant seal work if I wish any. I failed to mention earlier that in the evening, in town one sees circles of people standing and eating fried cakes, etc around an outdoor cooking. This is merely a hot plate on coals and is tended by a man who may serve up the hot food on large leaves. In connection with the birth control problem, Mrs. Weathersby feels that birth rate will fall when the people have electric lights and T.V. At present there is nothing to do after dark but to go to bed. Jan. 15 At 8:30am Dr. Dart and I visited Dr. Paul Leonard, Director for educational projects of AID (AID formerly TCM - Technical cooperative mission), at Faridkot House, Lytton Rd. He had the following comments on Indian education: There are 75 million children under 14 yrs old in India at present. In rural areas only 40% get through the 1st grade, 30% enter ninth grade and 1% graduate from the University. Half the secondary school children fail. In Delhi 75% go through the elementary school -through 8th grade. High school consists of 9th through eleventh grades. Only 50-60% of the children over all of India pass their Matriculation or External Examination which then permits them to go on to college. Even though a student is failing in his work, he may continue and when he