Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the junior class, from which the statistics were gathered, only 11 per cent were jitterbugs, and 89 per cent were opposed to "jitterbugging," describing the modern version of the terpsichorean art as "barbarism...
...Class, nearly to a man, imported "the-girl-from-back-home." Of these a vast majority were brunettes with only a few blondes and a lonely red-haired girl. For 50 per cent of the class it was their first college prom...
Sixty per cent were dinner jackets; the rest white ties and tails...
Another disadvantage of an unbalanced tutorial staff is that it requires too many persons to tutor outside their own House. A Student Council report has stated that over forty per cent of the men in Houses have tutors with offices elsewhere. This is the result of one of two things. Either a man's field, if it is a small one, is not represented in any House, or the staff of the House is not well-rounded. Since one of the reasons for the House Plan was closer contact between tutor and tutee, the present situation is very undesirable...
Feild's dismissal symbolizes the stagnation of a once progressive arm of the University. From the outset student opinion has been nearly unanimous in his support. Eighty per cent of the undergraduate concentrators in Fine Arts petitioned the Administration to reinstate him. But not a word of explanation, let alone any hint that the request might be granted, has been heard in the Fogg Museum or University Hall. Probably this plea too, will fall on deaf ears...