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...Statistics confirmed what a lot of college professors have known all along: scientists in private industry and government get more pay than those on college and university faculties. Reported the bureau, after a study of some 28,000 Ph.D.s listed in the biographical directory American Men of Science: the median faculty salary is $4,860 a year, compared with $7,070 in industry, $6,280 in government...
Effect on Colleges: Would advance the median age of the nation's colleges by two years. Lack of students during first years of program--before men return in large numbers--might work a hardship on many institutions...
...Your typical TiME-reading man made very interesting reading, but your average values do not interest me as much as the median values might. Are they available...
They are, so far as they have been tabulated. The median (or reader-in - the -middle) amount of life insurance carried, for instance, is $15,450. The median sales value of houses owned by TiME-readers is $13,867. As yet, we have not calculated what the median ownership of shirts, ties, socks, shoes, hats, suits, golf balls, luggage, cameras...
Last week the N.A.S.P. announced the ten winners. Highest scorer: 16-year-old Patricia Pilliard of Milwaukee, who got 84 of the 100 questions right (median score...