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...into early English. Price also found that MS. 75 was not a treatise on the astrolabe at all, but a description of how to build an obscure instrument called an "Equatorie of the Planetis." As far as Price remembered, only one example of such an instrument still exists-at Merton College, Oxford...
...begun the first rough compilation of results. We realized then that the really important statistical job of weighing one factor against another - of correlating earnings with age, or with religion, for instance - still lay ahead of us. To do that, we turned , all our figures over to Dr. Robert Merton of the Columbia University Bureau of Applied Social Research...
...findings were then turned over to Ernest Havemann, former TIME editor now with LIFE, whose often-demonstrated ability to "humanize" statistics made him a logical choice. While Havemann was writing the book, it was being checked, chapter by chapter, by Drs. Merton and West. Havemann had a field day, comparing the accepted myths (which he termed the "folklore") about college graduates with the facts revealed by the study...
...point of view (which makes such conservative Catholic publications as the Brooklyn Tablet hopping mad) is presented each week by a triumvirate of devout but underpaid editors, aided by outside articles on politics, philosophy and the arts (for about a cent a word) from such contributors as Catholics Thomas Merton, Evelyn Waugh, Sean O'Faolain, non-Catholics Franz Werfel, Dorothy Thompson, Anglican W. H. Auden. The editors can print whatever they like because they have no publishing angel, no official ties with the Church...
...MARGARET MERTON St. Marys, Ohio...