Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these, 55,151 70.2 per cent are holders of degree of one sort or another while the other 29.8 per cent attended the University without receiving any recognition of their efforts. The 1929 Yale Alumni Directory lists 35,825 living Yale men or 19,326 less than Harvard can boast...
Although it was impossible to secure any details from 3,842 Harvard men, facts concerning 18,000 of the graduates were received above their personal signatures. This is a 23 per cent higher numerical return that has ever before been received as a result of mailing prospectuses to the Alumni. The data received otherwise was gained in every possible war: friends of the men, relatives, clubs, and all conceivable sources were investigated in order to secure an accurate report...
...Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation of the inscription if it takes my last cent and my last breath...
...actual figures; occasionally economic facts are more digestible. In this case it deals with the sale of phonograph records; and the fact is rather amazing. At a record store in the vicinity of the college, of the total sale a little over a year ago, about ninety-three per cent, were jazz or popular music. At the present time the seven per cent, has risen to forty-five per cent ... approximately, and seems to be increasing...
Considering the entire Freshman class last year, including dropped, readmitted, and provisional Freshmen as well as the new Freshmen, 18.9 per cent made the Dean's list and 19.3 per cent were unsatisfactory as compared with 15.2 per cent on the Dean's list and 22.9 per cent unsatisfactory for 1927-28. The readmitted Freshmen, as in previous years, lowered the average of the entire class, as 46.3 per cent either had their connection severed or encountered some other unsatisfactory outcome. This is the poorest showing for the readmitted Freshmen since 1921-22. This result seems to justify the Administrative...