Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been decided to try serving a 60-cent table d'hote dinner at the Union at the regular hours--from 5.30 to 8 o'clock--in place of the present 75-cent meal. The change will be made today. Other meals will be continued as at present...
...Treasurer's statement shows that the general investments of the University earned a net income of 4.77 per cent, during the past year. The total amount of gifts for capital account was $633,988.55. The gifts for immediate use, principal and interest, amounted to $875,575,21, making the total gifts for the year $1,509,563,76. The income from investments amounted to $718,268.57 and from students' fees and room rents $823,235.02. These figures with $31,035.91 from sundry accounts and the gifts for immediate use mentioned above made the income for the year, exclusive of gifts...
...enrolment by states in all departments of the University except the Summer School, as given below, is practically the same as last year, with the exception of a slight change in the percentages of Massachusetts and New York. The figures show a representation from Massachusetts of 50 per cent of the total registration in the University, a decrease of 2 per cent from last year. The present representation from New York is 12 per cent of the total registration, as compared to 11 1-2 per cent last year...
...population of the Phillippines consists mostly of strangely diversified Malay races. The Phillippine language has twelve main dialects, with only one hundred words in common. There is absolutely no literature, and ninety per cent of the people neither read nor write. The people have no national consciousness, although racial consciousness is strong. Americans are desirous of giving justice and liberty to the Phillippines, but they must not think that a tropical people, inclined to be indolent, and whose only conception of rule is oriental tyranny, can immediately appreciate modern democracy...
...remembered, also, that in the year 1902-03, the Medical Branch contributed nearly $6,000.00 to the profits, but that during the past year the Society has conducted only the Cambridge departments. The dividends declared for last year are at the rate of 4 per cent as against 8 per cent...