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...have crippled not only Harvard but every institution of higher education in the state. Messrs. Jordan and Lobel, from Revere and Brighton respectively, introduced a bill to withdraw the exemption from taxation for all colleges in the Commonwealth whose student body does not contain a minimum of sixty-five percent Bay State citizens...
...bill were law local tax collectors would have only to write a short note to the colleges concerned, demanding them to remit certified checks for sums whose total would run up into millions. Harvard, M.I.T., Amherst, Radcliffe, Wellesley, Smith, and other colleges that cannot meet the sixty-five percent requirement would immediately be forced to curtail expenditures for instruction, research, scholarships, and salaries...
Unofficial surveys of early returns last night indicated a 90 percent trend in favor of the committee's recommendations. Weld informed his voting public last night that "we will need 2700 affirmative votes. Only a real majority will put us over...
Statistics announced yesterday by Sargent Kennedy, Registrar of the College, show a 21 percent drop for Freshmen since last term, with only 1290 Yardlings now enrolled. The ocC group, containing men whose classes have already graduated, now is 1286 strong, signifying a 17 percent decline since November...
Original grade sheets are 100 percent rag paper, Kennedy said, and these are bound and filed for a permanent record. In addition, day pages, I.B.M. and permanent record cards are "kept forever" in University Hall basement storerooms...