Word: cent
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...unusual surprise to me to learn that at the last meeting of the Directors of the Randall Dining Association the steward's salary was increased 60 per cent. That the association has not been successful in accomplishing its primary object is the sentiment expressed by many members. The prices of various articles of food are even higher than were those of the parent society, the Eoxcroft Club, and in spite of this fact it is rumored that the association has not been earning its expenses...
...carry a bill in the State Legislature, asking that the College property be assessed for its full value of over $10,000,000 and that this tax be paid to Cambridge out of the State treasury. This is justified, it is argued, on the ground that about 40 per cent. of Harvard men live in Massachusetts and enjoy the municipal advantages and improvements of Cambridge. The principle of this plan has a great significance since it will acknowledge the justice of taxing college property and will be a step toward direct and complete taxation...
...seems to me that in all the editorials and communications which have appeared in your columns opposing the erection of the new University Club on the corner of Quincy and Harvard streets the main consideration has been altogether neglected. Ninety per cent, of the social clubs of the College have their club-houses in that section of Cambridge which lies to the south and west of Massachusetts avenue and Harvard square. The men who belong to these clubs are already provided with loafing places and they are not going to tramp any considerable distance to the University Club, which must...
...read showing what the colleges and universities in New England are doing in religious work. Professor F.G. Peabody '69 stated that a renewed religious activity has been manifest at Harvard since the establishment of the Phillips Brooks House. Mr. Henry D. Wright of Yale, reported that sixty five per cent of the total enrolment of Yale University are church members, and from Williams College it was reported that out of 378 students sixty per cent are active members of the Y. M. C. A., and 150 more men are associate members. It was announced at the meeting that the next...
Professor Edward C. Pickering's recently issued report of the Astronomical Observatory for the year ending September 30, 1899, states that, owing to the continued fall in the rate of interest in recent years, the Observatory is in urgent need of additional endowment. A decrease of one per cent. represents a loss in income of $10,000 a year. Thus in 1892 the Observatory received $53,000 income, but in 1898 only $46,000. In the words of the report: "Every few days questions are solved by means of the photographs, which without them must wait years for an equally...