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...simply too small to fulfill its great responsibilities to young womanhood in this country," Jordan claimed, citing the quality of applicants for admission in the last six years as the decisive factor in his conclusion. He said that "Radcliffe has no moral right to limit undergraduate enrollments to the present 1,097 under present circumstances and pressures...
Jordan asserted further that Radcliffe "should encourage applications for admission by transfer of serious students, of demonstrated academic attainments." Estimating that "fully 10 per cent of the places in this College belong as of academic right to such mature applicants," Jordan criticized the College's present indefensible policy" of admitting fewer than one per cent of the total undergraduate enrollment on such status...
...supporter of President Eisenhower. He was discharged because I discovered that he was not loyal to the position of trust which he occupied in my employment. [He] lived rent free in my home and was really a member of the family circle; in that relationship, he was present at many discussions within my home, both political and otherwise, that involved matters of confidence and privileged information. I am very sad about the fact that it became necessary to terminate this employee's services, but the facts left open to me no other course of action...
...increase in the Government's income. Insisting that his revenue forecast is "realistic," the President noted that after the 1953-54 recession, the jump in federal revenues ''was more than the increase estimated in this budget." He asked Congress to extend corporation and excise taxes at present rates for another year, also requested Congress to up the federal gasoline tax from 3? to 4½? a gallon and slap a new 4½? tax on jet fuels (to be paid by commercial airlines now entering the jet age). For the plain, suffering taxpayer, the President held...
...phrenology may yet flourish under John Harvard's benevolent aegis. But indeed it may be truly said that University Hall's failure to recognize the noble discipline with even a puny half-course is but another reflection of Harvard's inability to adjust to anything--be it past, present, future, or timeless...