Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...years past the Harvard Co-operative Society has not been a co-operative organization in the accepted sense of that term, the sense which Professor Sabine employs. It is a misuse of the word co-operation to speak of co-operation among 2500 men, when less than two per cent of those men are willing to attend once a year a meeting called for the purpose of effecting co-operation in the matter of choosing the officers and determining the policy of the Society...
...cent book is wanted, I would advise, at least as a healthful antidote for the pamphlet suggested by your correspondent, the American edition of "Peace or War in South Africa," by A. M. S. Methuen, the senior member of the London publishing house of that name. Even Mr. Doyle himself pronounces this book "able and moderate." VERITAS...
...Seminary in Education. The conclusions reached are based upon the answers of graduates of recent years to a series of questions sent out by the Seminary in the fall of 1900. The number of question blanks sent out was 4728. Replies were received from 987 persons, or 21 per cent. Of these, 712, or over 72 per cent., express the opinion that in their cases the elective system has been beneficial. But 67 consider its effects harmful. In a corresponding way 555 consider that strenuousness of application is promoted by the elective system; 150 see no effect on application...
...Shooting Club has ordered a Mangar trap from the Chamberlain Cartridge Company of Cleveland. The new trap will permit six men instead of four to shoot in a squad and will throw nearly fifty per cent more birds in an afternoon than the present arrangement of five expert traps...
...athletic fields and a running track. To secure these improvements a 40 year lease of Franklin Field will be necessary; and that together with the improvements will cost about $520,000. $100,000 has already been raised; and the athletic committee has authorized the issue of five per cent. bonds to the extent...