Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radicalism is not a temporary product of the depression, rather it is evidence of free thinking on the part of the students. The students are evidently much more radical than the older folks. The fact that Thomas captured well over 10 per cent of the votes polled is surprising and interesting coming from Harvard, a usual Republican stronghold...
...quarter of the class, 276 men, received D grades and will be enrolled in special body-building classes for six weeks during the winter. This is some-what over the ordinary number of men with deficient posture, B grades were received by 251 men, or 23 per cent, and C's by 504, or 47 per cent...
Only 39 men, or three per cent of the class, make good enough mechanical use of their bodies to be graded A in posture, results of the recent tests of the Freshman class conducted by the physical education department show. This percentage shows the class to be considerably below standard in posture, the usual percentage of A's being from five to seven...
...this time last year, between 80 and 85 per cent of the graduating class had permanent positions, and the average salary was slightly higher. However, the placement service of the school has redoubled its efforts this year and expects to do fully as well in placing graduates, as was done last year when business conditions were better...
...work of the placement bureau has been helpful in finding positions for graduates especially in a depression year. In a normal year the placement bureau finds positions for about 50 per cent of the men graduating, but this year, the proportion is much larger and in addition, it has been very much harder to find positions. Other men are usually able to secure their own jobs. Last spring, the School encouraged the second-year men to start looking for jobs on their own initiative...