Word: rates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increase in tuition income has therefore loomed as a last resort. About half of this increase will be made necessary by the drop in enrollment next fall. Whether or not it is wise to lower enrollment at this time in view of its effect on the tuition rate is a complicated issue with strong arguments on both sides. But the fact remains that even if the student body remained at its present size, a substantial tuition rise would be necessary...
...hope to find a miracle cure, but they do expect their present slow progress to continue. In Atlantic City last week, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, one scientist cracked: "The progress of cancer research depends on how fast mice reproduce." (Usual breeding rate: one litter every 20 days...
Margin for Error. Oregon's high venereal disease rate in the '30s had worried Dr. E. C. Brown, a VD specialist who thought that more knowledge would mean less disease. Before his death in 1939, Brown gave $500,000 to the University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked...
...restlessness and failure to find self, high searching morality and low lust. Miller has written a novel that is good because it isolates and preserves for time ahead the tenor and taste of a certain significant period's play on some significant people. It verges toward the second-rate when it tackles large issues and attempts a sweep of which it is apparently incapable...
Secondly, Bolles' pupils will have to "continue improving at their present rate" throughout the season before they are ready for any wins. And thirdly, the Crimson must stay clear of any "acts of God," such as broken slides and submerged logs...