Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This scheme is consistent with the most up to date thinking in education today. Last December President Truman's Commission on Higher Education reported that 49 per cent of the entire United States population was mentally capable of passing the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, or the freshman and sophomore college years. But the Commission also noted that only 25 per cent of the population ever gets as far as the fourteenth grade. For the remaining untutored 24 per cent the Commission and President Conant have urged the local two-year college, tailored to the needs of the students...
Some economists have said that if this 24 per cent receives higher education, professional people will soon glut the market. This could not hold for the community college. Its graduate would not gain an LLB. or an M.D.; he would receive a B.G.S.; signifying that he had become a keener citizen by two years, a more useful wage earner by two years, a wiser family man by two years. What community or what nation can suffer because it is too alert, too prosperous, too wise...
Once again the H.A.A. has managed to allocate football tickets unfairly. For the Dartmouth game about ten per cent of the senior class has been placed in some of the worst seat in the Stadium--the wooden stands...
Boston's new Repertory Association, which opens its first season Friday, will offer a 30 per cent reduction in ticket prices to all University students and faculty, the Association announced yesterday...
...Presidential price controls; and against slum clearance and public housing provisions of the housing bill. He voted for the Taft Hartley law and to override the President's vote of the tax reduction bill. He supported an amendment to the rent control bill which authorized a voluntary 15 per cent increase...