Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...objective was to encourage more of the best Negro students from Southern high schools to apply for admission to good interracial colleges in the North. During the two years 78 Negro high schools in the 45 largest southern cities were visited. 3,178 students, all in the top ten percent of their senior classes, then took a modified college entrance examination. Of these, 1,732 passed. And 578 applied for admission to an interracial college, with 523 being accepted...
...basis of the exam scores, two interesting statistics stand out. The first is that only three out of every 100 graduates from Negro high schools in the South were qualified for a good interracial college. Also, only six percent of the top-ranking Negroes from Southern high schools did as well or better than the average student who took the regular entrance tests...
...Negro teachers are, for the most part, bad. In his book The Negro Potential, Eli Ginzberg points out that "the average future Negro teachers (freshmen in teacher-training institutions) in the South ranked below 95 percent of the freshmen in the whole country...
Ninety-five percent of the applicants for admission to Radcliffe this year have requested dormitory rooms, while the existing facilities can provide living accommodations for not more than 85 percent of them. With the building of the new Comstock Hall, which will house 110 students, Radcliffe will be able to provide dormitory quarters for any student who wishes to live at the College...
...This averages out to an expenditure of about $7 per year on each alumnus--a figure that seems extravagantly high until one reflects that last year College alumni presented their Alma Mater with gifts totalling $636,807, a total representing about $14.50 per man, or more than a 200 percent return on the original investment...