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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recruit small stockholders. Once a stockholder has an account, the high-priced blue chips that he first bought may seem pretty stodgy beside the greater gains possible in more speculative companies. He knows that top growth companies such as Polaroid and Texas Instruments, which have increased several hundred percent in a few years, were once considered risky. Says Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston: "We have no objection to people buying into small and little-known companies-provided they know what they are doing...
Observing that the next highest percentage in the last 15 years was 43 percent, earned by the Classes of '58 and '61, Miss Daveport said the Administration would like to think of this year's rise as "part of an upward trend." Since final grades are usually higher than midyear ones, she predicted that as much as 60 per cent of the 'Cliffe freshmen might make Dean's List by the end of the year...
Which side in this battle of the sexes is right? Statistical information backs the 'Cliffies. Every year a higher percentage of Radcliffe students make Dean's List than do Harvard scholars. Last year, for example, 39.2 percent of Harvard ranked in Groups I-III. Well over half-57 per cent-of the three lower 'Cliffe classes earned Dean's List privileges, and this rating does not include Radcliffe seniors, over 60 per cent of whom rank in Group III or above...
Voluntary withdrawals from the Freshman Class at the end of the Fall Term were the lowest in recent years, information released recently by the Freshman Dean's office indicates. Only 12 members of the Class of '62--one percent of those registered--had resigned by the end of the Fall term...
Contrasting the consistent decline of Freshman withdrawals in recent years is the marked increase in total resignations from the college. According to former Dean Leighton, the number of drop-outs from all four classes has risen from 2.7 percent to 4.5 percent since...