Word: perlis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer on speaking terms-and the party's indebtedness continues to spiral upward. The sleek party house organ, Democratic Digest, continues to pile up a $70,000-$80,000 annual deficit; rental for the committee's commodious offices amounts to $2,820 per month, and the 80-man staff draws down some $440,000 in annual salaries. Butler maintains a $350-a-month Washington apartment on the expense account, and his marathon travels (averaging 1,000 miles per week) add to the burden (although Butler travels economically, rarely hosts dinners or parties...
Although the Class of '62 "was potentially the strongest in academic terms that had ever enrolled" at the College, a total of 50 students withdrew, 41 with unsatisfactory records. Only eight of these students, however, had PRL's in the bottom 10 per cent of the class, while 16 ranked above the median. Thirteen held scholarships from the College and "several others" had grants from other sources...
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...
Freshmen tend to lose interest in science during the first year of residence, von Stade also noted in his report. Although nearly 50 per cent of '62 intended to concentrate in the natural sciences last fall, only 34.2 per cent remained in the field by spring. Only 20.8 per cent had planned to concentrate in the social sciences at the start of the Freshman year, but six months later 39.7 per cent chose fields within the area...
...present quota of 150,000 were made up of one or two racial groups, this would be a drop in the bucket for a population of 165,000,000," he stated. Jaffe suggested a new immigration act that has no national quotas, but sets a limit of ten per cent of the total for any one group of immigrants...