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Weather or Not. In Montgomery, Ala., Dr. Vernon Johns, pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, announced church services with a newspaper ad: "Beat the heat for God. Brave a reasonable amount of heat now instead of risking too much hereafter."
As a college professor, Johns Hopkins' Economist Clarence D. Long is gloomily aware that his earning power has been steadily losing ground in the endless marathon with rising living costs. As a practicing economist, he is also professionally concerned by "this singular inability of the pedagogue to hold his...
On Johns Hopkins' well-financed campus, says Economist Long, an average professor earned $5,700 in 1940. With a salary of $7,975 today, he gets only $4,154 in terms of pre-World War II dollars. Says Long: "The decline in purchasing power of 27%-before a single...
The usual explanation for this sad state of affairs is that income from endowments has been dwindling while costs are still going up. But that, says Long, is only part of the answer. "For one thing," he points out in the current issue of the Johns Hopkins Magazine, "state universities...
To make matters worse, there has been a general reluctance to raise tuition fees. "At Johns Hopkins, for instance, student fees have gone up in the same proportion as salaries: 45%, or half the 90% rise in living cost in Baltimore . . . Because fees have not kept pace with other economic...