Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...year of the acceptance of a play, Mr. Craig undertakes to produce it for one week during the regular season. The prize will take the place of the royalty for that week; and if he decides to continue the run, Mr. Craig will play a royalty of three per cent of the gross receipts for every week it is continued thereafter. He further agrees to do his best to place with other managers for regular production any play awarded the prize, retaining for himself a quarter interest where the play is produced elsewhere than in his own theatre...
...Morris, the first speaker for the affirmative, after stating the question, said that at present 90 per cent. of our exports and imports are carried by foreign ships. A system of subsidies is not only practical, feasible, and economical, but is the only adequate remedy for this state of affairs. If the countries which furnish our merchant marine should go to war, our people would lose $1,250,000,000 annually as long as the war continued. As it is now, in time of peace, we are paying out $200,000,000 annually to foreigners for transportation services; why should...
...Jordan Hall, Boston, on April 16 are on sale at Westmorly 106, at the main store of the Co-operative Society, at Herrick's, and at Jordan Hall. The price of seats will be $1.50 and $1 for all performances except for some 75 cent seats in Jordan Hall. In the sale of tickets members of the University will have preference...
Upon examination of the records of the Harvard alumni who graduated from the Law School during the past twelve years, it was found that of those who received the simple A.B. seven per cent. attained the grade of A in the Law School; of A.B.'s cum laude, 20 per cent.; of A.B.'s magna cum laude, 40 per cent.; and of A.B.'s summa cum laude, 57 per cent. These figures become more impressive when it is added that of the 30 who received the simple A.B. and who graduated from the Law School with the grade...
...been found necessary once this year for us to address the Freshman class on the subject of laziness, but we did not expect to be called upon to repeat the accusation. The Freshmen, however, have again merited a rebuke, for when 80 men, or roughly, 13 per cent. of the class, have contrived to get on probation, it is time they be called to account. This number is not only unusually large, but is particularly exasperating because it exposes an utter and deplorable lack of responsibility among the Freshmen. There is a duty which every undergraduate owes to his class...