Word: cent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Translate four "B" minuses into a percentage average and beside them three "B" pluses and a "C" plus. The man who failed to make the grade has a higher general average than the actual Dean's List by five per cent. The present "System" is a false standard and should be changed or else the basis for financial awards should be changed, for at present...
...fact that 38.3 per cent or nearly two-fifths of the Senior Class are in social clubs, as shown by the Album life-blanks, indicates that the proportion of club members at Harvard has varied little in the last few years. A Student Council committee on clubs estimated in May, 1927, that somewhat more than one third of the upperclassmen were in clubs. The fact that more Seniors than Juniors or Sophomores are included in clubs points to an essential agreement between the two calculations...
...opened this week not with a further decline but with a frenzied rally. Wild was the excitement in Chicago's wheat pit. Opening prices showed variations of five points at different parts of the floor. Trapped shorts, feverishly covering, were shooting prices up at the rate of a cent between trades. At the close of the day, the market had staged a $300,000,000 advance, registered net gains of some 5½ to 5⅞ points. In one day almost one-third of the three months' decline was made up, and wheat was back over a dollar...
...enrolment was gratifying. One hundred and seventy-nine men, of whom 170 were business men from 95 companies and 9 were teachers from other colleges, took the full six weeks' course. The ages of men ranged from 21 to 60 years, but 85 per cent were evenly distributed over the range from 25 to 44 years. From the United States, 26 states and the District of Columbia were represented, with Massachusetts (51), New York (34), and Illinois (23), leading...
...gave my articles to an American press agency in Paris. ... It offered me half of the income. I answered that I personally would not take a cent, but that the agency might deliver at my direction half the income from my articles, and that with this money I would publish in the Russian language and in foreign languages a whole series of Lenin's writings...