Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Proposals to tax any Massachusetts college with less than 65 percent local enrollment have met with sharp setbacks during the last two days, under a storm of criticism from leading educators. The bill, designed to force acceptance of a larger proportion of Massachusetts veterans in local colleges, is now under advisement by the State tax committee...
...proposed bill would make any school or college enrolling more than 35 percent of the student body from outside the state no longer eligible for tax exemption. Representative Peter J. Jordan of Revere, co-sponsor of the bill, said that this was "purely a temporary measure, designed to protect our own boys during the post-war crisis. There have been so many complaints from families of boys and girls unable to obtain a higher education in their own state that we felt legislation was justified...
...report, on the University itself, President Conant noted that it had no less than 28 research contracts with the government on subjects "essentially of a non-military nature." Furthermore, he pointed out that an enrollment of 12,000 students, 75 percent of whom are veterans, has raised enrollment to 150 percent of its pre-war level. The report on the college was chiefly devoted to the General Education courses and their organization...
From the written statements voluntarily submitted to a 30-man Council Sub-Committee on General Education by from 20 to 30 percent of the men and women in the classes, the Sub-Committee, most of whose members are either taking or auditing G. E. courses, compiled a 16-page report on six of the seven courses. Released yesterday, the report contains views not only of those polled, but also of the Sub-Committee members...
...lack of quizzes and hour exams was deplored by some students, but the fact that 40 percent of those in the courses are freshmen accustomed to what the Council calls "the numerous examinations and quizzes of high school and elementary college survey courses" partially explains this criticism...