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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spent as salaries to the officers of instruction, Research, and Administration, an increase of $041,000 over 1933-34. Other services and wages in these three departments accounted for $3,411,000, also exceeding these of the previous year by $170,000, but still $220,000 less than the amount...
Compared with the income of the year 1932-33 this amount indicates a decrease of approximately a million dollars. Tuition remained fairly steady: it showed an increase of $6000 over the previous year, while the tuition receipts in 1932-33 exceeded last year's by $112,000. The greatest decrease came in the extra-academic classification of investments and gifts, and accounted for nearly the entire difference of a million dollars...
...York Life Insurance Co. holds a $5,000,000 insured mortgage. Applications for mortgage insurance on large apartments have thus far totaled $365,000,000. Of these applications, 10% have been approved, 50% rejected, 40% are pending. Applications in the $16,000 class have generally been granted, to date amount to some $219,000,000. The high mortality in applications for large mortgages is a limiting factor in FHA's ability to promote a building boom. But in normal times, one-family and two-family houses account for 60% of the dollar volume of U. S. residences. Thus...
...addition to this aid, $100,000 was earned by students working within the University. Of this $40,000 went to 181 upperclassmen engaged in work in the libraries, museums, and offices of the University. This year an equal amount is to be reserved for such jobs. Regular student help, such as waiters, ticket takers, and cheir singers, received the remaining $60,000 and $200,000 more by those holding outside jobs obtained through the University employment offices. The undergraduates alone, numbering 600, earned in this way a total of approximately...
...time economies without affecting its basic value. The tutorial system, providing for more intensive and thorough work teaches the intelligent man the same things more rapidly. The policy of placing qualified Freshmen in advanced courses is cutting out unnecessary review. All these factors contribute towards teaching men the same amount, or even more, in a shorter period of time than it took a century ago. Yet Harvard is greedy. She insists on keeping her sons for four years when she has learned how to give them an education in three...