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Under this proposed setup of the federal price support, the unnecessary waste is ameliorated through the social salvation of a great segment of citizenry...
...next morning at 7 he was breakfasting in the Jefferson's mirror-hung Crystal Room with the particular segment of the 35th closest to his heart: the aging warriors of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery, whom he had commanded in France. That afternoon, while 250,000 people cheered along St. Louis' sun-baked downtown streets, he led them-and the rest of the 35th - in a 16-block parade...
...years ago, Chancellor Robert > Hutchins of the University of Chicago foresaw all this when he wrote: "Each endowed university still acts as though it were alone in the world, required to give every course and investigate every segment of every field. The reason for this is partly inertia . . . and partly vanity. One university cannot hold up its head if the university next door has a school of animal husbandry and it has none . . . Although this kind of comparison is doubtless better for the universities than appraising them in terms of their football scores, its educational consequence is mediocrity...
...year schoolteacher, $90,000 represents . . . practically the entire productive segment of his life span...
These high costs, raised to an all-time peak during the post war inflation, are perplexing an increasingly large segment of the nation's colleges and universities. In 1948-1949 one-fifth of the private institutions of higher education lost money; included in this list were such schools as Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell, and Brown. Harvard achieved a $500,000 surplus, but only by eating into precious reserve funds in order to pay off the debts of many deficit departments...