Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy-eight per cent of the 395 men who graduated from the Business School last June have already obtained permanent positions, it was learned yesterday from E. F. Wright '24, assistant dean of the Business School. The average salary of these 309 men is between $100 and $125 a month...
...year's Freshman class, is the best of any first-year class since the present requirements were established nine years ago, and the classes of the last three years have all shown a steady improvement. The Freshman class which entered Harvard in 1929 ended the year with 20.6 per cent of its students in the unsatisfactory group. The class entering in 1930 showed only 17.2 per cent unsatisfactory, and for last year's class, the figure was cut to 13.6 per cent. The percentage of honor students has also shown an increase...
...grave abuses and has in the past been distrusted by the public. The common type of newspaper poll, in which ballots are printed in the paper, is absolutely unreliable. That used by the Literary Digest, which mails about twenty million ballots and receives answers from about 23 per cent, is the most comprehensive and attracts the most interest, but has made some very serious errors in the past. Most notable of these was the prophecy that Davis and LaFollette would run about even in 1924, whereas Davis received about 29 per cent of the votes cast in the election...
...Room while having primarily books of an elemental nature has figures to show how much it is used in the evenings and on Sundays. From September to June, 32,406 used the room on evenings and 6185 went to it on Sundays. Although Mahady pointed out that 90 per cent of these readers were in the elementary courses in History, Government and Economics, nevertheless it proves that a night reading room is essential to the efficient conduct of the library...
...other departments of the University instead of in the Library, which serves such an essential function. The fact is that cuts have been made in the budgets throughout the University and that the Library must make its own saving. The library budged had to be out ten per cent. A saving of $19,000 was made by reducing the purchases of books and by leaving unfilled vacancies on the staff. A further economy of $16,000 was effected by shortening the when the Library is open. This sum could be cut in no other part of the Library budget without...