Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schools all over the U.S. They want not only a bright student body, but a broad one; and wealth and background are less and less a factor. In 1910 only 10% of the men who applied for Harvard asked for scholarship aid; now 50% do. In 1947 the ratio of private-to public-school graduates at Yale was three to two; today it is the reverse...
...proved a point that doctors have been making all along: many mental patients can be restored to society if states will only spend the money for intensified treatment and more personnel. The average daily expenditure for each state mental patient has risen since 1945 from $1.06 to $3.26, the ratio of employees to patients from one for every 6.8 to one for every 3.6. Though these figures are still woefully low, the rise has made it possible to treat more patients rather than just maintain them. With the impact of the tranquilizer drugs to help, many top state mental hospitals...
...November, and workers were eagerly baited, cajoled and lured into jobs by ads and employment agencies from coast to coast. The shortage was not only of brawn, but also of brain. Some years ago Planemaker Boeing, for example, needed one engineer for every 15 employees. By this year the ratio was down to one engineer for every ten-and Boeing was desperately searching for more engineers...
...Cambridge, and had made the University merely a meeting ground for the fleeting hours of morning classes. The Houses, it believed, were ideally suited to make Harvard an intellectual community based upon social as well as academic contact. Implementing this thinking, it arranged to install graduate students, at a ratio of about one to every ten undergraduates, in the Houses...
Then when Mr. Conant arrived, he made House residence for undergraduates mandatory. Perforce, out went graduate students, in came undergraduates, so that the ratio soared to one to 44. Now that more Houses, if not Harkness millions, seem assured, it is time to recognize and reaffirm the original aims of the Houses: grad students should return from exile, bringing with them the stimulation they've hidden away in the icy Siberia of the Grad Center...