Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...domestic allotment plan is the first plan for farm relief yet advanced which goes to the heart of the problem by seeking to control production. If the scheme is adopted the government will in effect grantee to every farmer who agrees to reduce by twenty per cent his average in wheat, cotton, or tobacco or his tonnage in hogs, a bounty sufficient to raise the prices of farm products as compared with industrial products to the level of twenty years ago. This bounty in turn will be collected from the millers packers and other processes of the four products...
Although the new Freshmen made an excellent showing the dropped and re admitted Freshmen continue to present a serious problem, especially the readmitted men. 36.4 per cent of the dropped and readmitted Freshmen were unsatisfactory as compared with 13.6 per cent for the new Freshmen and 15.9 per cent for the class as a whole...
...readmitted men among the dropped Freshmen made an especially poor showing both on the basis of the new higher requirements and these formerly existing. 56.1 per cent or over one half failed to meet the requirements of 3 O's and 1.11, while 34.1 per cent would have been unsatisfactory under the previously existing requirements of 2 O's and I. D. as compared with 28.9 per cent for the readmitted Freshmen...
...understood that the change was made in accordance with the plan of the department to allow students whom they feel are proficient in English to take advanced work. This idea originated six years ago when it was voted to excuse from the course all students who received 70 per cent or higher on the entrance examination in English. Later this figure was raised to 75 per cent...
...kitchens and dining halls in the Houses and the Union had been completely reconditioned at the opening of the year, thus reducing the expenditures for maintenance and repair during the rest of the season. In spite of these facts the $70,000 profit represented only seven per cent of the total receipts of $966,000. $40,000 of the profit is being used to pay students holding the new jobs in the Houses...