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Endowment income for both the Medical and Dental Schools rose only 99 percent during a period when total expenses increased 166 per cent...
...each: "Which political party do you think serves the interest of your group best?" The May answers showed a dramatic drop in Republican popularity, most notably a 9% decline among business and professional people. When Gallup popped the same question this month, he got a surprising response. Fifteen percent of the unskilled workers (against 11% in May), 16% of the skilled workers (18% in May), and 20% of the farmers (no change) said they prefer the Republicans. But the biggest change of heart was taking place in the ranks of the white-collar workers and among business and professional people...
Preparatory school graduates and sons of alumni had the greatest likelihood of going on probation for academic reasons, the Dean's report continued. Four per cent of the prep school graduates had their connection severed, double the figure for public school students. While alumni sons comprise only 20 percent of the class of '62, over 34 per cent of those withdrawing were from Harvard families...
...third group manages to find activities outside the University. These include the almost one hundred percent working wives of teaching fellows, the young mothers who, as Mrs. Bundy put it, "are engaged in maintenance," and those wives who do volunteer work or have careers of their own. Faculty wives have taught at Milton (Mrs. Yeager and Mrs. George Snyder), presided over the League of Women Voters (Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Feinsod), worked at the polls or for the C.C.A. (Mrs. Bundy), practiced Medicine and law, painted and sung. They have written novels and children's stories, been professional photographers...
Over half the seniors last May planned immediate graduate study, while 64 percent expected it eventually. Military service figured imminently in the prospects of one man in five, while one out of seven intended to start working soon after graduation...