Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different colors of Jerseys, Tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. He can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent. less at 436 Harvard street...
...different colors of Jerseys, Tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. He can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent. less at 436 Harvard street...
...degrees to those "who dwell for four years within her sacred precincts of learning?" If we are not mistaken, solid work in sixteen courses, or their equivalent, is required before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations at any one examination period. Such a rule permits as much undisturbed "dwelling" at Brown as is possible at Harvard. We have heard of a certain beast braying in a lion's skin, but nothing so analogous to this fable has happened lately among our colleges than...
...greatly err, the matter of alleviating the burden does not come into the question; the aim is merely to mark more justly. As a rule, it will be easier to decide whether a blue book is fair or good than it will be to determine the exact per cent. which it deserves. For this reason then the Conference Committee recommended the change. Of course, if the design was to lighten the examination, the best way would be, as our correspondent says, to lower the passing mark...
...graduate, and that 100,000 of them are college alumni. Now applying the common test to Congress, it is necessary to prove not that this and that prominent member, that a great many members or even an overwhelming majority - but that more than ninety-nine per cent. are not college graduates. And for valid statistics against a graduate's comparative chances for Presidency, it would be necessary for our government to be more than four times as old as it is without having a single President who graduated from a college. Judging not from universal statistics, but from the fragmentary...