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...brother Amos $11,000. The grand total might be $195,000. That equals the amount for which Mr. Newberry of Michigan was "severely condemned and disapproved" by a previous investigating committee. However, Mr. Pinchot's Pennsylvania has more than twice the population of Michigan, hence the per capita amount was less...
Thought the rest of the U. S., whose average income is less than $2,000 per capita per annum: "It seems that folk who study law at Harvard have a 7-to-2 chance of making more than $5,000 a year 20 years later, and a 2-to-5 chance of making $10,000 or more...
...such an absolutist can justify his rule. Always Leguía has been able to point to his signal achievements in administering the finances of the republic and extending its commercial prosperity. Today he is in the habit of asserting that the national debt of Peru is smaller per capita than that of any other nation. Often he remarks with satisfaction upon the large investments of U. S. capital in Peru, and the number of U. S. business men who have gone thither...
...minimum scholastic average qualifying a student for such assistance has been raised from 70 to 75. The number of individual scholarships thus available will under the new plan be reduced, but those students selected under the higher standards will receive a larger measure of assistance, as the per capita stipend has been materially increased...
...commenting upon the new plan Albert Beecher Crawford, director of the University Bureau of Appointments, under whose direction the scholarship awards are made, said: "Scholarship aid and employment secured by the Bureau for students, have both increased approximately 450 percent in the past six years. The per capita benefit during that same period, due to higher costs and the great increase in students, has nevertheless barely held its own. With the existing economic conditions Yale must choose between helping more students to a degree inadequate for the majority, or assisting fewer and more highly selected students each to a greater...