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...Thirty percent of the 566 first year students in the Law School last year were dropped at the end of the year. In 1935, 22 percent first year students failed, while in 1934, 145 first year men out of a class of 588 failed. The enrollment this year, unusually large, is 1496, with 627 first year students...
What can perhaps be called the nearest solution to this problem has been utilized by Eliot House to a remarkable degree of efficiency and popularity. This consists in a personal, room-to-room canvass by members of the house committee who collect exactly one-half of one percent of the annual room-rent. This rate has been judged both fair by the residents and ample for running expenses by the financial boards. The collection is a bit more tedious than in other houses but the degree of surety is much greater, the interest spread in the workings of the House...
...Anthony Adverse" is of uneven power. For minutes it grips the audience in the spell of its theme, while in spots it is agonizingly slow and dull. The movie would improve fifty percent if three-quarters of an hour were lopped...
...follows the Faculty system, the new plan will probably mean that employees on the payroll who have annual incomes below $2000 shall contribute about two to five percent monthly on their salaries towards a fund realizable on retirement in the 60's. In the event of death, the money goes to the employee's family...
Using Columbia and Texas as examples, Edwards pointed out the absence of freedom at 75 percent of American higher institutions. He commented upon the Burke case at the former college and censorship of the student press at the latter...