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...sciences and higher mathematics should begin no later than the junior year in high school. But in the last 50 years, the proportion of high-school students studying algebra has dropped from 50% to 20%, physics from 20% to 4%. Says University of Illinois Engineering Dean William Everitt: "We can't teach these boys algebra and geometry or primary physics and chemistry in the colleges." Today M.I.T. reckons one in four of its freshman engineering students to be poorly prepared, while Illinois Institute of Technology is only 60% filled for lack of properly qualified applicants...
...Biggest Vehicle House in the World," with annual sales of $2,000,000. Its most popular buggy was the high, wide & handsome "Izzer"-so called to distinguish it from a has-been, or a "Wuzzer." In 1910 Studebaker entered the auto business by buying control of Detroit's Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Co. Though Studebaker didn't know it, E-M-F's most valuable asset was in the person of a young man named Harold Vance, who started there that same year as a 15?-an-hour mechanic's apprentice...
...Helen Everitt, New York editor of Houghton Mifflin pointed out how difficult it is to get into publishing. She concurred with De Rochemont and Clark that writing jobs are tough with long hours and low pay the first few years...
...other speakers will be John M. Clark, publisher of the Claremont, New Hampshire, Daily Eagle, Helen Everitt, New York Editor of Houghton Mifflin Company, and William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Service...
...Institute of Radio Engineers was closeted to discuss military secrets. President W. L. Everitt leaned forward with a conspirator's expression and solemnly announced: "Gentlemen, the Army & Navy have now finally given , permission to use the word radar - provided you spell it backwards." Washington has been grinning over this story for weeks. For censorship officers, the story has a double sting: they are well aware that radar has been one of the worst-kept secrets of the war. A favorite gag pictures a mother remarking to her husband: "John, don't you think we ought to tell Junior...