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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About ninety per cent of the apartments listed by the Registry fell within this class...
...term unemployment, a figure reflecting those who have been without work for more than 15 weeks, increased by 80,000 to 1,544,000. The durable goods industries--which had been hardest hit by last year's recession--showed little more than the already predicted recovery rate, about one per cent. In fact, many of the new jobs in that field came from the steel industry, where pre-strike panic has produced an unnatural, impermanent job rise...
Since participation is not one hundred per cent, and never could reach that figure, the H.A.A. has an obligation to keep the Faculty's subsidy as low as possible. "Operating expense," as the subsidy is euphemistically called, reached $666,621.55 last year. Unless careful precautions are taken, this deficit, with rising costs and declining income, will mount much higher...
True, this increase provides a positive measure for the improved quality of each entering class, but conceivably the Dean's List will soon come to be meaningless as an academic achievement. Dean's List students who are only in the top fifty per cent of their class will be no more able to enter the graduate schools of their choice than students in the same percentile at present. Larger honor lists, therefore, are misleading. Even more, they are strong proof of Harvard's failure to raise its own academic standards. The list itself does not mean that much; it could...
Sargent Kennedy '38, Registrar of Harvard College, disclosed comparable freshman midyear figures for the Classes of '61 and '62. Last year 23.7 per cent of the freshmen had Group Three or better at midyears, 'while this year 31.6 per cent achieved the same level...