Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard freshmen, 99 per cent. part their hair in the middle, 38 per cent. use oil of bergamot, 10 per cent. go to recitations without gloves, 67 per cent. chew tobacco, 17 per cent. eat hasheesh. [Princetonian...
...often been charged that the colleges are rapidly losing their influence in literature as the general standard of education is raised throughout the country. This is held to be the ease, particularly with the graduates of the larger colleges, such as Yale and Harvard. The fact that thirty per cent, of the men chosen by the reading public to represent American literature, received their education at Harvard disproves this statement as far as the graduates of that college are concerned. This result cannot fail to be satisfactory to the graduates of that college, particularly as, with the exception...
Added: Cambridge Picture Framer, Packer and Shipper, Mr. A. Morgan, 434 Harvard street. Discount 15 per cent...
Tobacconist, Mr. Emery Bemis, 450 Harvard street. Discount, 12 per cent...
...rate of discount given by Geo. F. Burnstead and Co. on paper hangings is raised to 20 per cent. uniformly...