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...Class of 1885, with 64 living members, took first place in percentage of contributors, with a large number of memorial gifts bringing the total to 104.7 percent. The Class of 1917 was first in amount contributed, with...
Surveys have shown that about 10 percent of the radio audience in this country, or nearly seven million people, listen frequently to foreign short wave programs. Professor Allport stated, "Of these, only a few believe what they hear," he said," but there are those who even though they do no attach much importance to the broadcasts themselves, pass on to other people what they have heard. Thus they get a feeling of importance in letting others knew that they have been listening to foreign stations...
...investigation was repeated again on February 26 with another representative group of students. During the interval since the last questionnaire, the President, in his speech on the 22nd, had given the public the final account of the damage. The results from the second test, when tabulated, revealed that 48 percent still believed that the damage was greater than reported...
While the number of graduate students in each department has fallen off about 50 percent, undergraduate enrollment in the Geological Sciences has dropped very insignificantly from 599 to 585 and in Astronomy about 25 percent from the fall figure of 50 students. Expecting radical decreases in undergraduate enrollment in regular courses, these science departments predict a swing to the specialized war courses that will more than balance this loss
...previously been in the running was Princeton's agile quintet. Although the Tiger's steady attack continued to function, it was the Nassau defense which made the victories comparatively easy. The Orange and Black held Penn to 31 points and Cornell to 30, figures which are about 25 percent below the average scores of these two teams on a season's basis...