Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stearns died in April. 1887, and was succeeded by Dr. William H. Payne of Michigan University. The college opened last month with an increase of 30 per cent over the attendance of any previous year in the college's history...
Smoking is dying out at Yale. Only fourteen per cent of the freshmen use the weed.- Columbia Spectator...
Professor Shaler said, yesterday, in one of his courses, that he was much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members...
TOURNA- MATCHES. PERMENTS. WON. LOST. CENT...
...thorough examination was recently made in Cornell University of the records in scholarship of the men who engaged in intercollegiate sports since the opening of the college. The result showed that the average scholarship for the year of each man who rowed on the crews was 70 per cent., that of base ball players 73 per cent, and that of those engaged in track athletics 76 per cent. The per cent. of athletes who graduated was greater than the per cent. for the whole University. These results whould seem to show that intercollegiate contests, when kept within reasonable limits...