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...Political Clubs is simply a device to give Harvard's noisy minority of left-wing student politicians the propaganda benefit of a permanent majority in a purportedly bi-partisan or non-partisan organization," says club President John R. Thomson '57. These people, he claims, attempt "to make their median opinion look like a representative view of the Harvard student body...
...French population has been getting progressively older. Since the mid-18th century, medical progress has contributed to increasing longevity, while wars and depressions have contributed to reducing the birth rate. In 1775, 7% of the population was over 60; today 16.2% of French people are that old. The median age has risen slowly through the 19th century, is now 35.7 years, the oldest in the world...
...listing of the number of times freshmen had actually conferred with their advisers showed that the median Yardling between September and March had about four meetings. The median figure for an ideal number of meetings, however, showed a 50 percent increase...
Such choices are not easy. The staff is under paid in a university accustomed to offering the highest salaries in its field. Not only does this disturb the librarian, but the continual effort to keep a capable staff is handicapped when some universities have a median salary $1000 a year higher than Harvard...
...graduate schools, moreover, have noted that this plentitude of high grades often makes comparison of tutees in the same field of concentration nearly impossible. Yet, while an "A" is not a median grade, all seniors in tutorial are nevertheless academically qualified honors, accustomed to Dean's list marks...