Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University and Cornell and between 1918 and Mechanics Arts High School, which will be held simultaneously in the tank of the Boston Y. M. C. A. on February 13 at 8 o'clock, are now on sale at Leavitt & Peirce's and the Athletic Association Office at 50 cents each. Admission will be 25 cent. This is the University's most important home contest and the last match Freshman schedule...
...does not risk a constitutional breakdown as a result. Furthermore, an equal amount of so-called soft drinks, romping in all its effervescence through the channels of ones internal mechanism, has an effect more disastrous to the private welfare than that instigated by the four per cent. of alcohol in beer. A cup of coffee every morning is far more injurious to the system than two bottles of beer a month. Why have we overlooked an anti-coffee campaign...
...result of recent complaints the Yale chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is taking steps to raise its admission requirements. Among the various suggestions for improvement it has been urged that the high-stand men, amounting to ten per cent. of each class be admitted to the society, thus placing the system of election on a purely competitive basis. There are many objections to this plan, however, for if men were chosen at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there would be no undergraduate chapter, and if at the end of their senior year under this arrangement, there...
...Through a growth due solely to the addition of interest and loans repaid, the original endowment has now been swelled to $207,000. Repayments of loans is not forced, but it is found that, by a system of following up the borrowers after they leave College, over 60 per cent. of the needy students thus helped, eventually pay back both principal, and interest...
...abolition of beer at class meetings; would it not also be a fine thing to do away with cigarettes upon those occasions? We know--those who earnestly serve knowledge and truth cannot but see--that cigarettes are noxious; that of all men who die, at least ninety-three per cent have at some time smoked cigarettes...