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...professor by the student will, in all likelihood, grow heavier in the next few years. As the level of undergraduate intelligence rises the demand for a deep and more creative teacher will grow stronger. That the level of intelligence is rising is obvious--the class of '56 scored a median of 583 on its Standard Achievement Tests while the median for the class...
...Husband based his survey on college records, the class yearbook, and a special questionnaire on job history, income, civic affairs and other aspects of the graduates' lives. Median income of those who replied...
...Husband also noted a relation between fields of study and present income. Business and Economics majors had the highest median income, while Social Sciences students came next. Scientists, mostly pre-medical students, followed in third place, while "Cultural" majors earned less than the class median...
Because of the low birth rate during the Depression, available girl-power-for all jobs-is lower than at any time since the mid-1920s. Today, girls also get married younger (median age: 20), and married working girls quit earlier to have more babies. Moreover, secretarial work no longer has the prestige it had in the 1930s. A woman may now become an engineer, have more fun as an airline stewardess, earn more as a buyer, a librarian, a copywriter. Even some waitresses make $150 a week, double the average secretary's salary with half the strain...
...more to enforce the prevailing decadence, Shakespeare provides a simple and trusting Troilus (who is soon betrayed), a manly and serious Hector (who is ultimately butchered). And he offers in Ulysses a median figure, a brilliant yet unavailing man of the world. Such characters help deepen the play's mood, interrupt slithering words with resonant poetry, reveal not just the lashes of scorn but the salt tears of feeling. In its unevenness, Troilus does touch depths; in its waywardness, it does sometimes strike home...