Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Over 79 per cent of the 1,592 students admitted to the Class of 1963 have accepted admission, the highest percentage since World War II. This "unexpectedly large return" surpassed by four per cent the 75 per cent acceptance rate estimated by the Admissions Office earlier this spring...
Applications for the incoming class established another new record for the College, reaching a total of 4,350. Last year, slightly over 4,200 students applied, and of this number 1,487 were accepted. The Admissions Office, apparently expecting an acceptance rate close to 1962's 73.8 per cent, was caught unaware by the high rate in the Class...
...that has become quite noticeable since the Korean War. The Class of '59 does not differ markedly from the classes immediately preceding or following it. Thus, one would not expect the post-graduation plans of the Class of '59 to differ markedly either. On the basis of a 73 per cent return in a study of the immediate plans of the Class of '59 the following break-down is reported: 15 per cent plan to get a job, 7 percent plan to travel or study, 21 per cent intend to fulfill military obligations, and 2 per cent are indefinite...
Monro categorized the change in three main themes, emphasizing first that students at the College now have an increasing quality of academic ability. He told about 200 alumni and their wives that a college career is no longer the end of the road educationally. At least 80 per cent of today's senior class--about twice as many as in 1934--will go on to graduate school, he said...
...medical men intently watched the graphs. Abie's pulse quickened from a normal 140 beats per second to 175 during acceleration. But for Abie's nine long minutes of weightlessness, her pulse was normal and steady. Under the 38-g stress of reentry, it rose to 222-high, but within acceptable bounds...