Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Class of 1936. An announcement was made last spring that the present size of the Freshman class, so large that over 100 men could not find accommodations in Houses was a mistake. The Class of 1937 is expected to be slightly over 1000 so that next year five per cent of the rooms in the Houses which were vacant this year will be occupied...
...reduce salaries of employees of the U. S. not to exceed 15 per cent...
...Cent Otherwise Idle
Interesting answers were received on the question which asked what the students would be doing if he had not attended. Sixty per cent confessed that they would be idle. Forty per cent of these would be searching for jobs, and the remaining 20 per cent taking life as easily as possible. Others would have had jobs ranging from assistant in a cancer research laboratory to lookout on in ice patrol boat in the north Atlantic. Eighteen per cent would be aluminum, book, and encyclopedia salesmen...
...reasons why they came to Harvard were varied. About 38 per cent wanted to make up credit; the remainder were interested in economics, education, or wanted to work for course reductions or degrees. Twenty per cent replied that they primarily came in order to have a good time and incidentally perhaps pick up some knowledge...