Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...income of the society shall be derived from the annual fees of members, a commission of 5 per cent. charged on sales of second-hand articles, and a percentage of not more than 5 per cent. charged above the actual cost price on other articles sold to members. If, at the end of any academic year, it shall be found that the income has exceeded the necessary disbursements of the society by a sum greater than the usual reserve or contingent fund, then such balance shall immediately be paid over by the treasurer of the society to the corporation...
Three men obtained 100 per cent. in French...
There was great excitement on Wall street, New York, yesterday. Almost a panic took place within ten minutes of the close of the exchange. Louisville and Nashville stock declines 12 per cent...
...library during the first four months of the current year is ten per cent greater than for the corresponding period last year...
...become engineers or scientists. It is moreover a splendid discipline for the mind to cram a mass of formulas, and to neglect the general principles of the subject. And it is really silly to object because so large a proportion of the class get marks under 50 per cent., and that so many men get conditioned in this subject every year. Your course otherwise is so easy and simple that it needs some heroic tonic like your physics as now taught, to give it character. Macte virtute, Puer. The faculty approve of cramming and fosters the system...