Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would say that about 80 per cent of the inefficiency and so called stupidity of undergraduates is caused by fears, confusions, and complexes which can readily be cleared up by simple psychology. The unusually large number of sensitive people, cases of nerrous breakdown, and even many cases of apparent physical disorder are due to the fact that our culture is a culture of suppression, especially in New England. "Mourning Becomes Electra" and "Ethan Frome" are true pictures of the abnormality and irritation in personalities caused by suppression...
Only 200 Faculty members responded to the call donating $4,860 to the fund, while 900 employees who answered gave $2,646. Although 20 per cent more employees responded, those of the Faculty who gave, donated liberally...
Contrary to rumor, however, the quarters of the victory and eagle variety, can not be identified by the absence of any date. All genuine 25-cent pieces printed since 1915 were poorly engraved so that the dates tend to rub off easily. This defect is to be remedied, it was learned, by the issuance of a new model of the coin in the near future by the United States treasury...
...following statistics of the comparative midyear grades of concentrators in Sociology for 1932 and average grades of the college as a whole, were given out recently by Professor P. A. Sorokin, chairman of the department. Six per cent of the Sociology students were in group I, three times as large as the two per cent for the entire College. Other percentages in the different groups, Sociology being given first, the College average second, are as follows: II, 20 and 7; III, 8 and 15; IV, 16 and 20; V, 33 and 30; VI, 9 and 9; Others...
...opening of House dining halls has taken much business from restaurants on the square and has reduced the number of outside jobs available by thirty per cent. At the same time, the employment office has had to meet the demands of a still larger number of students who need work in order to stay at college...