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...survey shows that: "Incomes of the high honors graduates of the last 30 years are high. The median with students, housewives, and soldiers eliminated, is $11,227, and the arithmetic mean (income total divided by the number of income recipients...
...larger number in the professions pulls down the average income of our group," Harris continues. "Thus, for the 114 in the professions the mean income is $11,567 and the median, $9,663; for the 57 others (business executives and the like), the respective figures are $21,557 and $17,142, or about twice as high as in the professions...
...students scored over 609 on the verbal aptitude section of the College Board examinations; less than ten percent fell under the 500 mark. Only 165 of the some 1900 colleges and junior colleges in the United States expect applicants to take these tests. Since 500 is the median score, students here are among the best who applied to these most selective colleges. Similarly with rank in class, more than half of '57 were in the top 15 percent of their classes at public or private school. Less than ten percent were in the bottom half...
...level of academic ability of the Harvard population, however, has been going up. The median Scholastic Aptitude Test verbal score of the entering class has gone up in the last four years from 582 to 632 and it will probably go up still further, but not much, I hope. The median Scholastic Aptitude Test mathematical score this year...
...statement is remarkable for its misconceptions. The HYRC makes two assumptions: that the Forum can act as a propagandizing organization, and that its median view is left-wing. The first shows an amazing, indeed unique, interpretation of the Forum agreement. Simply stated, the Forum is an informal committee where Harvard's political clubs can cooperate in discussing common problems and sponsoring joint programs, if they wish. Since its decisions primarily concern organization--not policy--the Forum can produce no propaganda. Any policy decisions that are made in the name of the Forum require consent of all club representatives...