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Although education is traditionally the province of state and local government, the financial resources of local school districts and poorer states are simply not adequate to meet the present crisis. Under normal financing methods, the states and communities together could supply only about half of the necessary amount--leaving a gap of billions of dollars...
...system of varied room rents gives to the Housemasters a tremendous job which they are not equipped to perform. In assigning suites, the Masters are supposed to give poorer members the low rent rooms, and the wealthier students accommodations at higher prices. The rent adjustment funds are designed to provide some flexibility in the assignment process. But Housemasters have found that well-to-do students will argue long and vigorously for the luxurious, but low priced suites. Unless the Masters know the prosperity of every student in the House, they cannot administer the varied room rent system very wisely...
...state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived the cangulei-ros, the poorer people who ate a cheap fish called the cangulo; on the higher ground lived the more prosperous xarias', who could afford to eat a more succulent fish called the xareu. The part-Indian Cafes were canguleiros...
...took over (he was fresh out of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary) was near a Bronx fish market; in time, "the odor of sanctity overcame the odor of fish." Later, he moved to the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church. When he found that the church maintained a chapel for poorer parishioners who could not afford to rent pews in the church proper, Dr. Coffin closed the chapel, abolished the pew rents and merged the two congregations. He often took a portable organ to tenement districts to hold services for workers who came home...
...Publisher Cowles not only argued that monopoly papers are among the best in the U.S.; they are also partly responsible for the fact that sensationalism in the U.S. press is becoming a less and less salable commodity (see below). Said Cowles: "As the best papers have grown, the poorer papers, the marginal papers, have, to everybody's benefit, gradually died out . . . Those newspapers that are not in hotly competitive fields are moreover better able to resist the pressure to sensationalize the news, to play up the cheap sex story that will sell more copies than another that...