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...million for third and Yale $22.5 million for fourth. The figures for fiscal year 1963-64, compiled by John Price Jones Company, Inc., New York firm of financial consultants, now that all eight Ivy League colleges rank among the nation's top twenty universities in private gifts. Dartmouth, the poorest, received $5.3 million in gifts. And Pennsylvania, the second poorest, received $9.6 million...
...drove into the rough on nine out of 18 holes at this year's P.G.A. Championship, hit a tree and three traps, still scored a 69 for the round, and won the tournament? One thing, though, about Golfs team: it is the richest All-America around. The poorest man on the squad is Julius Boros, and he merely made $28,232 this year...
...Congressman's district has not prospered with him. In a state not notable for its wealth, the Second is the poorest Congressional District in almost everything, from education to automobiles. In the median income of its residents ($1968), it is the lowest Congressional District in the United States...
...usually pays as much or more for merchandise at the Coop as would be paid at other stores around Boston. In textbooks, of course, the Coop enjoys a monopoly on University reading lists which protects it from effective competition in the Square. And it almost uniformly offers the poorest prices in the Square on used books (which it will not even buy back until after the book buying rush, effectively forcing students to buy new or elsewhere...
Silver also fails to emphasize sufficiently the relation between Mississippi's oppressive social system and its economic ills, which make it the poorest state in the country. He does not treat, for example, the problems of the increasing mechanization of agriculture in an area with no cities to offer employment to the growing mass of jobless sharecroppers, most of whom are Negroes...