Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wide & Woolly Sir: Last year you ran an item on the American Museum of Natural History's experiment in forecasting the severity of winter by noting the number of rings a caterpillar had. The Forecast was for a mild winter...
Undefeated Andover, which has a habit of playing tie games, was an almost perfect match for Poley Guyda's Yardlings. The Blue's halfback line consistently beat a faltering Crimson offense to the ball. As the result, the final outcome was a replica of last year's 9 to 0 tie between the two teams...
Radcliffe was harder hit by economic conditions last years than was Harvard. Through 1947-1948 there was a small string of surplus years, but higher costs in all departments last year brought about a (relatively small) deficit of about $10,000. Radcliffe has recently been experiencing a slight increase in gifts and investment income, but this increase has been quickly wiped out by the spiraling costs. As a results, Annex students pay higher tuition, room, and board rates despite the savings of the dormitory work plan and the conversion of many single rooms to doubles...
...schools with more pronounced lags in income, however, there has been no alternative but to eliminate courses, discharge faculty members, and postpone plans for modernization and other improvements. Only about 15 per cent of the country's colleges and universities fell into this category last year, but if the financial crisis continues to grow, many more will join those making retrenchments...
Harris points out that to earn "a decent living" professors are forced to teach summer school, give public lectures, and take in roomers in their homes. "Each year faculty members become more overworked and more neurotic, and their research, productive writing, and teaching suffer correspondingly...