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...million will go to bolster the college's endowment, and the income from that half will help Radcliffe absorb part of the rising cost of educating its students without pricing itself into a millionaires-only market. The composition of Radcliffe's student body--who come from families with a median income of $30,000 and an average income of $60,000--suggests the urgency of building the endowment and boosting scholarship funds to keep the college from becoming more elitist than...
Equally noxious are Chem 20's six hour exams, median consistently 50 out of 100. On the midyear test the marks ranged from 1 to 214, out of 200. The student with the 214, one of the entranced mystics, really had a 138. But his grade became more than itself when he freaked out on a chemical conformation and entered supra-infinite space...
...year's delegates (82% of the Republicans, for example) will be attending their first convention, past statistics paint the portrait of a kind of composite delegate. He is a white, middle-class male of about 50. He is more than likely a college graduate. He lives well: the median income for Democratic delegates in 1964 was over $18,000 a year and for Republicans over $20,000. About 10% of the Democrats and 14% of the Republicans earned more than...
...comparative wealth, the typical delegate can hardly be accused of buying his convention seat. To be sure, the nation's political-finance reporting laws are notoriously lax. But at least on the record, the median contribution by 1964 delegates of either party to their state organizations was under $240 a year; less than 30% gave as much as $500. What really marks the typical delegate is a long record of giving time and energy to the party of his choice. This is what may pin the hack label upon him-though it also clearly demonstrates a continuing concern, whether...
...serve a menial apprenticeship; no one from outside, regardless of his qualifications, can come in at the middle. Some, like Reddin, favor lateral entry, commonplace in every other organization, but none have succeeded in changing the ossified structure of the police establishment. Pay is equally out of date; the median for patrolmen in big cities...