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...boom" had other educators worried last week, but for a different reason: they were afraid it meant bankruptcy for their colleges. In School and Society, Colgate's P.R.O., W. Emerson Reck, reported the odd plight of U.S. colleges which are going into the red because they have too many customers...
Explained Reck: since tuition fees cover only half the cost of a student's education, every extra student means that the colleges must dig deeper into their endowment income to make up the difference. With expenses soaring and the interest rate slumping, the difference is getting wider & wider...
Then never of Waweig or Chamcook I'll think. Having you in my arms We'll reck not of Digdeguash beauties, We'll care not for Pocologan's charms. But as emblems of union forever Upon two fair rivers we'll look, While you'll be the Skoodawabskookis, I'll be the Skoodawabskook...
Professor Reck took the Oldoway man home to Berlin where he examined the find in detail. Oldoway stood 5 ft. 10½ in. He had long legs and a long narrow head. His nose was big, his upper lip long, his jaw and chin massive. He looked like many a Hamite still to be seen in Northeastern Africa. To Professor Reck, Oldoway's lower teeth seemed filed to points, a fashion current among certain living African tribes...
...ground where Oldoway lay buried was pleistocene, judged to be a million years old. Was this modern-looking man buried in ancient soil fairly recently, or did he live & die in the pleistocene period of glaciers and subhuman creatures? Professor Reck believed the latter...