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...from the two highest classes, the idle rich, and the rich professional class which serves the rich", and that "certain distinguished Harvard professors of undoubted aristocratic lineage could well afford to be democratic in theory". The communication, signed "H. Payne Whitney, Jr., Harvard 1921", stated that "less than 15 percent of Harvard students come from homes of more than ordinary wealth...
According to figures recently published in the "Scientific American", ten percent of our population is illiterate in the absolute sense of the term,--that is, unable to read a word in any language. Of the million boys who attain the age of 18 each year, 50,000 do not speak any English at all; 200,000 have had as little as two years of schooling, and one half that number have had only one year. Those who reach the sixth grade average approximately 500,000, while barely 100,000 ever go through high school. Thus a large percentage of young...
...estimated that seventy percent of industrial accidents happen to persons requiring an interpreter in filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...
...volume of sales on the New York Stock Exchange last month decreased 29 percent from the December total, compared with an average seasonal increase of 11 percent. New York clearings decreased 11 percent. In the past January clearings have usually, been greater than those of December by about 6 percent...
...small that it was a negligible factor in our educational system," reports Mr. Donham. "After that year there was a considerable growth, but the striking increase is literally in the academic year 1919-20. Several of the leading schools this year had entering classes from 50 to 100 percent larger than ever before, and their total enrollment runs into the thousands. The development seems likely to be not toward fewer students, but toward still further radical increase in numbers in the near future...