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Yale's Professor Robert Dahl, in a study of New Haven politics, points out that a genuinely ethnic group remains seriously ethnic only so long as it remains proletarian. But the time comes when large segments of the group are assimilated into the "middling and upper strata ... and look to others in the middling strata for friends, associates and marriage partners. To these people, ethnic politics is often embarrassing or meaningless." In New Haven, he set rough dates for the achievement of this state by various groups-the Germans by 1920, the Irish 1930, Russians 1940, Italians 1950, Negroes...
...that a simple ½-h.p. air compressor, humming away throughout the cold months, can be used to pump air through perforated tubing that lies on the bottom of the harbor. The resulting bubbles then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when the ice nearby is seven inches thick The system, which had been tried experimentally by the Navy, was first used commercially as far back...
...also apparent that those students who go on to college and graduate school tend to be from the higher socio-economic strata of society -- from those families which have the greatest political and economic power...
Charles W. Filson '66, president of HSA, pointed out that the development of the organization at Harvard depended in large part on the "wealthy strata of the community. It would have to be modified in a community where students didn't buy $25 rings...
...popularity of voluntary sterilization was not generally suspected until 1959, when a study by the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center showed that in one out of every ten couples of childbearing age, either husband or wife had been sterilized. The survey sampling ranged through all social strata. The only population group showing markedly lower-than-average rate was the Roman Catholics, to whom sterilization is forbidden by papal encyclical and decree...