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...figures for 1944-45, President Conant pointed out, reveal that where New Jersey, in using 1.74 percent of its total income for public schools, provided $198 for each pupil, North Carolina, by expending 1.91 percent for the same purpose, raised $68 per child. "On this point, (that sufficient funds are not available)," said President Conant, "stands the present case for Federal...
...federal funds; in addition they need the stimulus in many cases to do more with their own resources." President Conant followed this statement with a sanction of the proposed legislation approving the plan to grant aid to those states which cannot reach a "safe minimum level" after alloting 2.2 percent of their total income...
More than 40 percent of those answering the poll hope to obtain a place in Lowell House for the coming three years. Better music rooms, record collections, the House library, and omnipresent gastronomic considerations seem to account for the majority of these choices, although two men were swayed by the apparently magnetic personality of House-master Elliot Perkins...
Standing second in Yardling favor was Eliot, where approximately 20 percent of 1950 hope to live. Dunster and Kirkland each drew just over ten percent of the choices, while Leverett (eight percent), Adams (seven percent), and Winthrop (five percent) brought up the rear...
Most Yardlings (44 percent) are planning to live in double suites, though almost as many indicated a preference for triples. Quadruple arrangements rated a poor third, while only a few men looked forward to roughing it alone in the Claverly caverns...