Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
...said, "someone in the year 1900 had predicted that within 50 years the amount of goods consumed per person in the United States would have risen two and one-half times, that nearly four out of five children of high school age would be in high school, that the number of university students would increase four times as fast as the population, that nearly every family would own an automobile, a telephone, and a wireless receiving set ... that this would be accomplished after paying the cost of the nation's participation in two great world wars and while...
Aside from this, Princeton has always admitted a high number of Southern students--Nassau is often called the "most northern of southern colleges." Many of the negroes in Princeton town are descendants of slaves that 19th-century students brought to college with them. But the Southern influence isn't as strong as it used to be--even though more Princetonians straw-voted for Thurmond in the last election than for Truman...
...number of steps towards casing the country's educational crisis" were posed by Professor Harris in last Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Harris, a backer of Federal aid to education, wants government and state help in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and capital outlays, and he doesn't fear any resulting threats to academic freedom. "British experience shows us that aid is possible without control of college educational policies," he explains...
Harris' final suggestion is consolidation. "No great injury would be done the country if a substantial proportion of its institutions of higher education were closed. By reducing the number of schools, we will be able to increase the size of the remainder and thus lower unit costs in the end." How Student Expenses Have Risen 1941 1946 1948 1949 Harvard College Tuition $400 $400 $525 $600 Average Private Tuition, Man $266 $330 $386 $407 Harvard Total Costs $1325 $1350 $1535 $1610 Average Private Total Costs $796 $957 $1057 $1073 Radcliffe College Tuition $400 $450 $525 $600 Average Private Tuition, Woman...