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...Francis Galton put this theory briefly when he said several years ago: "Our race is overweighted. It will degenerate under circumstances which make demands that exceed its powers." The enormous increase of knowledge and the increasing complexity of the curriculum in our universities is analogous to the increase of things and the increasing complexity of social organization in our civilization as a whole. It is, perhaps, more than analogous. It may well be an organic part of the larger social process that Galton described. We are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings...
...tons a year of nitrogen fertilizer in three years, 20,000 tons annually in six years and 40,000 annually in eight years. The last 20,000 tons of this production is predicated on the previous sale of the smaller output. Profits on the fertilizer are not to exceed 8%, and a farmers' board is to supervise the books and manner of distribution. Excess power will be distributed under supervision to neighboring states. 2) The Air Nitrates Corporation bid comes from the American Cyanid Co. The rental for both dams No. 2 and No. 3 would...
...manuscripts which are submitted in the contest may be either fiction, essays, or articles, but must not exceed 4,000 words in length. The purpose of the competition is largely to stimulate interest in the writing of English prose among college...
...very well be, however, with the rapidly growing demand for admission to college, that the two groups first mentioned may exceed 1000; and in that case the selective process must be applied to those groups as well. It will then be noted that assurance of admission can no longer be obtained by the passing of entrance tests alone. Admission to college has now become strictly a competition, in which school records, entrance examinations, character, industry, health, capacity for leadership, in short, all qualities which may be grouped under the term 'promise,' determine the competitors' success...
Groups are also being formed in Yale, Princeton, Cornell and other colleges and Universities throughout the country. The total number of students which the International Confederation will be able to entertain is limited to 400 and Harvard's quota cannot exceed...