Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unaverage; some take sly amusement in explaining to visitors that they read advanced calculus for kicks, in their spare time, and many of them are precociously sure where they are heading, e.g., "Harvard for a doctorate, then teach math." Marriage waylays most girls heading for graduate school, but a survey of both sexes a few years ago showed that 13% of the school's alumni had taken two or more years of graduate study. Not all Bronx High students go into science; Principal Taffel maintains that those who do not are better grounded in what he pointedly calls...
Harvard stands second only to Yale in the amount received in voluntary private contributions during the past two years, a recently completed survey has revealed. According to the survey, more than $22.5 million was given to the University in 1956 and 1957 while Yale received more than $23 million...
...period covered by the survey includes only a small part of the Program for Harvard College drive, Laurence O. Pratt, public relations director for the Program, explained last night. He emphasized that the survey includes only cash actually received, while a part of the $37 million donated to the Program thus far is in the form of pledges...
...Francis H. Sparks, president of the Council on Financial Aid to Education, one of the groups which helped conduct the survey, noted Tuesday that private contributions to colleges and universities in this country have more than doubled in the last two years. The amount of voluntary grants will double again within the next five of six years, he predicted...
...survey of House Masters yesterday revealed that in general they disapprove of ever abandoning the present system for assigning Freshmen to Houses. Only Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, conceded that making assignments through the use of IBM machines, as done at Yale, might be worthwhile "with a lot of qualifications...