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...some precision how many there will be of college age in the next 15 years. We do not know what percentage of those of college age will go to college, though we can make some incautious guesses on the basis of past experience. Suc8h factors as changing attitudes towards higher education, the pressure of numbers on the average income of a college graduate, the success with which we stimulate the 40 per cent of the able who do not graduate college to do so, the facilities made available by the colleges, the economic situation, the tax burden and its distribution...
...tended to increase its enrollment much less than the nation. The percentage decline related above for the longer span is relevant. But note the following: 1920--1940 1940--1954-55 % rise all IHL* 150 65 % rise Harvard College 37 24 % Harvard to all IHL 25 37 *Institutions of Higher Learning...
...explain this? I am sure that the improvement is much greater than can be explained by the rise in numbers seeking entry to institutions of higher learning (about two-thirds since pre-war). I am indeed aware that Harvard's lag in the acceptance of students vis-a-vis the national rise is an important consideration. Any policy of the future must take account of the possibilities of improving quality through absorbing a smaller percentage of additional recruits than the nation. (It has been shown, incidentally, that despite a doubling of college enrollment in recent years the average...
Although Mr. Halberstam may be correct about white Southern parents being apprehensive about opening the schools to Negroes who have a higher disease rate than whites, he fails to emphasize the fact that many of these white parents are themselves responsible for this situation. Having been relegated for centuries to the lowest economic position in the United States generally and in the South particularly, it is not surprising that Negroes have the highest disease rate of any other group in this country...
...whites in similar economic circumstances to get on the relief rolls, and relief grants are often lower for Negroes than for whites... Hospitals, libraries, parks, and similar recreational facilities are much poorer for Negroes than they are for whites. This is true in spite of the fact that the higher sickness rates and the inferior housing conditions in Negro sections make the need for all sorts of health and recreational facilities so much greater in Negro neighborhoods....Streets are not keep up in Negro section of Southern cities the way they are in white sections. Public utility equipment is often...