Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students in the class of 1936, 667 men or 57.8 per cent of the total, entered Harvard College this year under the New Plan, it was revealed by a survey of Freshmen made public yesterday by the Committee on Admissions. This figure compares with 40 per cent a year ago, or a gain of 17.5 per cent...
...well over 100 men. This year there was a decided drop in the proportion of students entering under the Old Plan of examinations, whereby the candidates for admission accumulate 15 credits over the space of several years. Of this year's Freshman class, 384 students, or 33 per cent of the total, entered by this plan, as compared with 45 per cent a year...
...rich in this country, "American Business Leaders" shows that no single class, as yet, has a predominant hold on high positions. While leaders are being recruited more and more from the ranks of the college or business school graduates this may be explained by the greatly increasing per cent of the population with such training. Two thirds of the leaders in the survey were without college education although the percentage of college men holding high positions in the largest corporations was greater than the percent of college men in the group as a whole. Men who entered college...
...there in a greater proportion of young business leaders in the small than in the large corporations. Dividing the 7,371 selected leaders into age groups of five years, it was discovered that the largest group was that from 50 to 54 years of age, which constituted 17.1 per cent. Only 1.1 per cent were under 30. Those who received financial aid in excess of $10,000 reached their positions about two years sooner than those without such...
...this item. Approximately $5,000,000 was gained from the Wyoth estate, granted to Harvard for use in scientific work, primarily in Biology. The endowment figure as given represents an increase of $6,211,139.17 over the previous year; on the basis of the 5 1-4 per cent return which the University has averaged on its investments, this represents an increase in income of approximately $325,000. The University made a profit of 3 per cent of the volume of business in the Dining Halls...