Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First of all, applications to within 80 per cent of the quota limit will be accepted. Secondly, all applications above this limit will receive individual attention from the Committee, and individuals, hesitating between two or more fields, may be guided into the one of these fields where the demand is less...
...well to remember in connection with the governmental attempt to invade the territory of private business, that Public Utilities Commissions have been set up in the public interest and may be made more effective. Further, consumers may compel the commission to fix "fair" rates (usually a 6 per cent return on invested capital) by obtaining a court writ of mandamus, and stockholders may receive an injunction from the court when the commission's rulings amount to confiscation of invested capital...
Several interesting observations on the practical intelligence of the Harvard man have been brought to life by the 1935 Album Committee's efforts to get information on the Senior Class. For instance, of the 671 envelopes mailed from the local postal district, 392 had three-cent stamps on them, when two cents would have been sufficient...
...student whose efficiency was more marked, but still on the minus side, sent his life blank with a 2 1/2 cent stamp. Three wily Seniors, however, either by design or through that absentmindedness common to the scholar, sent their statistics unstamped. Seven men, intending to be doctors, spelled their future profession's name "medecine." One Phillips Exeter alumnus, reported having prepared at "Philipps Exeter...
...where they could work with tutors living in their respective Houses. . . . As a result of giving more attention to fields of concentration and tutorial quotas both on the part of the Central Committee and the Masters, the distribution was carried out in such a way that over 80 per cent of the men could be tutored in their respective Houses...