Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...then never see service even in the ranks. You must consider how infinitely more important officers are than privates. Napoleon fell largely because he lost all his veterans in the retreat from Moscow and there were no experienced men to lead the troops. It is estimated that 60 per cent. of the French soldiers are brave or cowardly just in proportion as their commander shows these emotions. You must not spoil good material for officers by enlisting aimlessly now, or until special circumstances arise to warrant such action. For the present, Yale men should content themselves with making themselves...
...Washington, Mr. Willard said, the roads of the country can respond without delay to the transportation needs of the Government whenever they arise, and according to the opinion of railway officials the efficiency of the roads as a whole can thereby be increased by about 25 or 33 per cent...
...face the first of the special final examinations, the outlook is not encouraging. There have been unmistakable signs of slackness in the college routine, for instance, in the preparation of the annual study cards for the Committee on Electives. With barely a week left ninety-four per cent of the undergraduates have shirked this simple duty. In itself a minor matter, such a record today has a fateful significance. It indicates a curious lack of perspective, and, worse still, a lack of self-control--precisely what the critics have asserted...
...institution was opened to students in 1868. The university aims to give all its undergraduates enough military training to qualify them to become officers of volunteers. Military efficiency of the highest order is attained. Delinquencies in drill are treated like any other academic failure, and the five per cent, who receive failure in the drill take the work over. Officers of the rating of captain and lieutenant are given faculty rating as assistants...
...made up from tuition fees and other income, but this goes to show that the University is in this respect exceedingly poor. It is so poor in funds available to meet running expenses that over a period of 11 years, when general wages and commodities rose some 60 per cent., it was unable to grant any increase in teaching salaries...