Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first thought the logical course to follow seems to be to make price adjustments; a study of the situation, however, shows that such a course would be impossible. The University is not in a favorable enough economic position to reduce the prices of these rooms to an accommodating level, and as the men concerned are unable to pay the prevailing rates for the available rooms, an impasse has been created...
...Against the attempt to raise prices to 1926 level...
...general educational level of the Protestant ministry has been declining in the past century...
...Columbia researchers gave standard vocational-prediction tests of intelligence, clerical ability and mechanical adroitness to 2,500 schoolchildren, aged about 14. Careers of more than 2,000 were followed, their occupational success at ages 20 to 22 measured by: 1) earnings; 2) occupational level; 3) contentment with jobs...
...England private schools have engaged his services in order to teach their pupils to hold their noses up, and his success in that field has been marked. In his six weeks of Freshman training he does as much as is possible to untwist scholarly spines and set shoulders level, but can any man correct an individual body in six weeks...