Word: cent
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...original purpose of American colleges was mainly to train men for the ministry, but so it is no longer. Harvard, founded chiefly to educate clergymen, now gives to this profession barely two per cent. of her graduates; Yale, begun under similar impulses, now contributes a meagre three per cent. This and other interesting changes in the professions favored by college graduates are described in a bulletin by Bailey B. Burritt on "Professional Distribution of University and College Graduates," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education...
...with excellent precision at the duties of the college men in the present period of our history, showing especially how their aid may be utilized in the present campaign. Where there is so much unrest among the foreign element in our manufacturing cities, he said the comparatively small per cent. of the young men of the country who have the advantage of a college education should go out among the people whose language they have learned and by gaining an insight into their life render themselves capable of making them understand the proper course to pursue as citizens...
Figures showing the occupations of students at the School during the two years disclose some interesting facts. Of those attending the School in Cambridge practically sixty per cent. are teachers of one kind or another; and of these in turn thirty-three per cent. are from the grade schools. The number of teachers from the high schools comes next...
...everywhere; but in their case no process of gradual selection has been at work to produce the intellectually fit. The boys go to school at 12 or 14 years of age because their parents want them to and can afford to send them; and for like reasons 90 per cent of the same boys go to college...
...grammar school boy lies the burden of proof to show why he should go on to high school, and on the high school boy lies much more heavily the burden of proof to show why he should go on to college. But 90 per cent of the private school boys go to college as a matter of course, whether they are intellectually negligible or not. All they need is an allowance and a passing mark in the entrance examinations. And so, serious and trivial, stupid and bright, they all herd in together. Of course they will not stand as high...