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...turn will start feeling in 1965. Colleges are now mainly confronted with rising ambition: from 14.6% in 1950. the proportion of Americans aged 18-24 seeking degrees reached 23.1% in 1960 (and 38% in California, the top state in college enrollment). All this fuels a rise in the median number of school years completed by adult Americans-from eight years in 1940 to eleven today...
...incidentally, the median scores of successful applicants are somewhat lower than popular conjecture has placed them. Although the College does not give out the medians as such, the application of a slide rule to the percentages provided producers the following "educated guesses": SAT verbal--695, SAT math--660, English Achievement--725. Nevertheless, test scores weigh heavily enough that the Committee places them at the back of each applicant's folder--where the reader will not see them until she has already formed a partial picture of the candidate in question. Moreover, the Committee is currently trying to arrive...
Twenty-three students fulfilled the requirements for Group I, 163 attained Group II, and 303 achieved Group III standing. Also, 295 were in Group IV, 225 in Group V, and 17 in Group VI. The class median was somewhere in high Group...
...notice Brooklyn, Connecticut, you to pass through going to Hartford. His ordinary tiny rural community nestled Connecticut Valley is extraordinary in its ordinariness. Its people are farmers, businessmen, workers, housewives, bank-business executives, and clerks; it has the distribution of sprawling estates and and three-room dwellings; the median into the area is, to the dollar, the same as the median. And for the past twenty years, political response has been uncanny accurate reflection of the national mood. The figures, showing the Democratic pertain of the two-party vote in the last five initial elections, bear out the contention fill...
...murals and mosaics ("Must schools be palaces?" wrote Dorothy Thompson in 1957). school boards began to listen. New designs often emphasize the penny-pinching Spartanism that pioneering architects borrowed from industrial buildings. And many a school board's haggling habit of comparing prices per square foot (U.S. median: $15.99) drives away architects. Some boards would just as soon skip hiring an architect in favor of prefabrication...