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...Falling farm income . . . Since the G.O.P. took office, farm income is down 17%, farm prices are down 18%, the parity ratio is down 18%. In the face of these hard facts, the G.O.P. 'farm program' consists of lower price supports, less farm credit, less funds...
...Before the sixth annual meeting of the National Council of Churches Division of Home Missions, the Rev. Willard M. Wickizer of Indianapolis predicted that if the ratio of church membership to population in the U.S. remains constant until 1975, Protestants will have to lay out some $8 billion for the construction of 105,000 new church buildings. This will mean, said Dr. Wickizer, that for every new recruit to the ministry today there will have to be four in the near future. U.S. Protestants will also have to develop a new kind of pastor, geared to a greater proportion...
...expand by 25 per cent do we increase the faculty, including full professors, by 25 per cent, and if so, how much will this cost with $400,000 now required to endow a chair? How much more scholarship endowment will be needed to maintain the present ratio of scholarship holders? At least two more Houses would be needed, at $5,000,000 a piece or more. Where do we put all these now Houses? Lamont is jammed now. Do we build another Lamont, and if so where do we put it? Do we build a second Indoor Athletics Building...
...been reduced to 11.5 per cent; by 1910 to 6.4 per cent; and by 1955 to 2.2 per cent. In this sense, as might be expected, Harvard's influence has been declining. Should enrollment double and Harvard not increase its numbers, then the result would be a Harvard ratio of 1.1 per cent...
...critics, if they still don't believe me, come down to Mississippi and contribute to the Democratic process. If they are not able to travel South but still feel obligated to help the racial situation (an obligation which I share) they should form a committee and investigate the ratio of Negro teachers as to Negro pupils in the Boston schools. I may be wrong, but it is failings of the North such as this which invalidate most Northerners as critics in the eyes of their Southern sinners. David L. Halberstam...