Word: medians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRED: Yeah, lots of action. Say, wasn't that the hour exam with a median...
Dillingham pared many elective courses to concentrate his staff to an unusual degree on interdisciplinary general studies, which attracted national notice. He raised tuition, upgraded faculty salaries (from a miserable median $3,900 in 1953, they now stand at $10,000). Then, on a summer day in 1959, Dillingham rode up South Hill, looked out over Cayuga Lake and instantly decided: "We will build our campus on the hill...
...still far from enjoying all the rights the law grants him, but he already knows that he wants and needs more than the law can give. He wants not only equality of opportunity, but social, economic and, in a sense, psychological equality. The Southern Negro family's median yearly income is still only $2,520, compared to the white Southerner's $5,565, which in turn is $935 below the national median for whites. Many Southern Negroes will remain too poor to go to restaurants and theaters now open to them, too uneducated to fill any new jobs...
...Canada, such growth presents some tough problems. "We are having to expand before we have had a chance to develop our own true excellence-our Oxford, Cambridge or Harvard," notes Canadian Social Scientist Bernard Ostry. Despite good salaries (the median full professor's pay is $14,163), there are many staff vacancies. Three Canadian college presidents recently toured five U.S. campuses trying to lure graduate students from Canada back home to teach...
...district continues to send him back to Washington. For in Whitten's district, only a few of the 59.1 per cent of the citizens who are Negroes can vote. And these are people whose poverty the government programs are designed to aid: their median income is $700 below the meager district-wide average...