Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...school organization in American cities has always been the least effective, and there are two points in which an improvement may be sought: first, the number of members on the school committee is too large, and second, expenditures for educational purposes should be a definite per cent of the total valuation of the city...
...cannot be imparted to a building extensible in all directions. If, however, such a building is to stand in the College Yard as at present, its dimensions and capacity must have moderate limits. The library at present contains nearly 700,000 books and pamphlets, an increase of fifty per cent in the last twenty years. Looking forward twenty years it can clearly be seen that a building suitable for the permanent occupation of such a portion of the College Yard as can be given to it will not hold long all the books belonging to the general library...
...than to enter it. Indeed the percentage of eliminations is much larger within the College that it is at the entrance examinations. In the course of the year 1902-03, 68 men left the class of 1906 and 66 the class of 1905; both classes losing over eleven per cent in this single year...
...students in the University last year, excluding members of Radcliffe College and the Summer School, there were 10 deaths, a rate of 2.34 in 1000. In 1900 the death rate among males twenty and thirty years of age in the city of Boston was about 9 per cent. These figures would tend to show what a great reduction in the death rate may be hoped for in civilized countries from the increase of general intelligence, the development of medical science and the enforcement of wholesome conditions of life...
...annual statement of the Treasurer of the University, for the year ending July 31, 1903, was presented to the Board of Overseers at the meeting on January 13. The statement gives four and sixty-eight one-hundredths per cent as the rate of income on the general investments,--a decrease of twelve one-hundredths from the rate of the preceding year. The investments of the University amounted on July 31, 1903, to $15,863,521.70, showing a gain of $1,748,979.85 over the preceding year. Of gifts the total amount received during the year, not counting announcements of future...