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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young Ed was no determined student. In college his grades were so poor that his classmates wondered how he ever lasted out four years at the University of Virginia. Among other things he flunked a course in government. But Ed had other attributes. He was an impressively handsome, exuberantly friendly man who taught Sunday school, became president of the campus Y.M.C.A. and believed that all the world was just as well-meaning as well-meaning Ed Stettinius...
...campus of Jefferson Military College near Natchez, Miss, stands a monument inscribed: "Aaron Burr tried . . . under these oaks, 1807; Andrew Jackson camped here, 1812-1815; Jefferson Davis a student here, 1815; John James Audubon taught here, 1822; Lafayette reviewed cadets, 1825." But in spite of its historic past, Jefferson Military College had fallen on hard times. Classroom walls were peeling ; desks were worn beyond repair. There were hardly enough students (48) in its high-school classes to keep the place going. Then, a few weeks ago, along came Judge George W. Armstrong...
...Commissioner of Education Earl J. McGrath sighted "a specter in academic halls" that had nothing to do with Halloween. It was the specter "of another entire student body for every college and university." According to McGrath's figures, about 78% of the nation's fifth-grade students who are mentally qualified for college never get there. The result is that millions of U.S. citizens "go through life functioning below the level of their potential." His proposal: an annual $300 million federal aid program for college scholarships...
Thomas W. Hoya of Shorewood, Wisconsn, was elected Chairman, Waverly R. Beall of Versailles, Indiana, became Treasurer, and Richard T. Povill of Brooklyn, and Paul M. Marby of Belmont, were chosen freshmen representatives to the Student Council...
...suggestion is consolidation. "No great injury would be done the country if a substantial proportion of its institutions of higher education were closed. By reducing the number of schools, we will be able to increase the size of the remainder and thus lower unit costs in the end." How Student Expenses Have Risen 1941 1946 1948 1949 Harvard College Tuition $400 $400 $525 $600 Average Private Tuition, Man $266 $330 $386 $407 Harvard Total Costs $1325 $1350 $1535 $1610 Average Private Total Costs $796 $957 $1057 $1073 Radcliffe College Tuition $400 $450 $525 $600 Average Private Tuition, Woman...