Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...saving on sheet music is noticeable just now, 40 per cent being the amount of reduction to the member ordering...
...recognizes this fact. The plan is to represent the value of each elective by the ratio between the average marks which the members of that elective received in their freshman year, and their average marks in the elective. Some electives might thus be valued as high as 120 per cent., others as low as 80 per cent., of the standard course. But the adoption of the plan would at once alter these figures. Students would prefer three and a half hard courses to five easy ones; the standard of the one must fall and the other rise...
...discount given to members by Messrs. Dane, Stoddard and Kendall in cutlery, fancy hardware, and skates, is reduced from fifteen to ten per cent. The facilities for ordering from this house through the society have been improved. Further notice of this will follow...
...discount given to members by Messrs. Dane, Stoddard and Kendall in cutlery, fancy hardware, and skates, is reduced from fifteen to ten per cent. The facilities for ordering from this house through the society have been improved. Further notice of this will follow...
...well as proficiency. Let the general rank list be made up by averaging two rank lists: one, the present list, representing proficiency; the other, representing amount of work, made up as follows. Find for each student the values of the electives in which he has received a certain per cent. (By fixing this per cent. at 60, 70, or 80, the tendency to superficial work could be repressed.) Arrange the students in the order of superiority, and assign to each position in this list, the per cent. which won the same relative position in the proficiency list. This plan...