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...average of 30 books and 40 magazines a month, Author Derleth scored a clean 97-missing three questions in Transport, two in Business & Finance, one each in Science, National Affairs, Foreign News. I am curious to know how this compares with the average score. HUGO SCHWENKER Sauk City, Wis. Median scores on latest TIME test: college students-53 ; senior high school students-44; junior high school students...
Such was one of the questions which Columbia's famed Psychologist Edward Lee Thorndike lately put to 40 unemployed young men and women. The men asked a median price of $260,000,000, the women $1,375,000. Next Professor Thorndike promised them secrecy in their cannibalism. Promptly the men lost their squeamishness, dropped their price to $50,000. The women still wanted $750,000. Finally Dr. Thorndike made the same offers to 24 unemployed men and women over 40. Two-thirds of them flatly refused to practice cannibalism at any price. Professor Thorndike wanted chiefly to find...
...spitting on a picture of George Washington or Charles Darwin, a deed which nearly half the younger subjects would do for $10, the oldsters set a median price...
...Smith stressed the fact that the median salary of those 55 percent who found work from other teaching institutions was $1276 a year, while the Harvard. vard graduates who secured jobs were receiving $2017, $17 higher than last year's average salary. Salaries for men who have received their Doctor's degree rose to over &6000, while the lowest wage was as much...
...bulk of new accommodations added by the House Plan have been priced at $280 and above per man, and that there is need for an increase in the number of medium priced rooms around $240 and $260 per student." With this report in mind, the administration has fixed the median of the new rates at about $260. Further than this, the whole scale of rents between $500 and $600 has been wiped out and large additions have been made to the number of rooms within the $100-$200 range...