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...Fifteen offenses punishable by death are listed in the document. In all but two cases Old Testament texts were cited as authority for each law, rather than the legislative and judicial authority of England...
Bostwick, a minus half thirty player, had the highest handicap in the tournament, giving fifteen points a game to Ludington, a minus half fifteen player...
...seems clear that nationally in the next fifteen years there will be a large increase in the number of college students. Just how big the increase will be is, however, uncertain. College enrollments will be effected by a number of more or less unpredictable factors: business conditions, draft and man power policies, social and economic pressures, the cost of higher education, scholarship opportunities, the difficulty of securing admission to college, etc. . . The increase may be much more than is generally predicted, or it may be much less, depending. But even if the common estimates of a doubling of the number...
...course no one can say with certainty how many students will want to come to Harvard fifteen years from now, but I would be surprised if we had then more than 5,000 bona fide first choice candidates with academic ability and personal qualities of the sort we were really interested in. Harvard's concern, as said, is with the top 5 per cent, which will mean probably about 200,000 students of the 18 year old group by the end of the 1960's. Of these more than half will be either girls or interested primarily in technical...
...years ahead it will almost certainly be impossible to maintain even the present uneven quality of Teaching Fellows. In the next fifteen years there will be a terrific shortage of college teachers. It will be a seller's market for them and anyone who meets even the minimum qualifications for teaching at Harvard will have better offers elsewhere. Just as serious, for the same reason it will be far more difficult than at present to keep the best and most experienced of our junior faculty, the Instructors and Assistant Professors. Who then will staff our Sections and provide tutorial instruction...