Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stands the legend of undergraduate indifference to current issues, in the light of the vote taken by the Intercollegiate Disarmament Council in seventy colleges on questions regarding war and peace? A high percentage of the students cast ballots--84 per cent of the entire student body at Amherst, 78 per cent at Yale, and 70 per cent at Mt. Holyoke. That the returns are representative is indicated by the participation of large and small institutions, of various types, in widely separated sections of the country. Among the colleges were, for example, Dartmouth, Wellesley, Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Rollins, Kansas, and Southern...
There is still a great deal to be done, notwithstanding. During the last year it was only possible to give jobs to 55 per cent of those who applied for them. This means that, perhaps a great number of students have had to leave college for financial reasons. The student who is working to pay his bills realizes the possibilities of a college education, as many more solvent are incapable of doing. He takes advantage of these possibilities, and for this reason, if for no other, he should be given encouragement...
...want it. The cut rule is a good example. Student opinion for years was in favor of putting the matter in the hands of the individual himself. Now cutting is the student's own responsibility, but he wishes that he could be back under the old 10 per cent system where he could take as many cuts as he wanted up to 10 per cent, and get excuses for all the rest he wanted to take. Now he is accountable to his instructor for absence from class, and he is finding he cannot say, "But I haven't taken...
...naturally question the agreement of preaching and practice of Harvard's administrative officials on certain details which vitally affect Harvard's fathers' pocketbooks. Speaking in Metheun on January 14, Henry L. Shattuck, Treasurer of the University contended that public employes should take a wage cut of ten per cent in view of the increased purchasing power of the dollar. He was quoted in part as follows; "What counts is not the number of dollars received but the purchasing power of the dollars. And it is generally admitted that during this depression the purchasing power of the dollar has increased about...
...actually, than in Reparations which he only reads about. French unemployment increased by 16,000 in the past week alone. Luxury trades are prostrate; the mining industry is on part time. L'Oetivre (Radical Paris daily) put the matter bluntly with its headline: NOT ONE PFENNIG? NOT ONE CENT!! If this was to be the end of Reparations, let it be the end of debt payments also. London too was anxious to switch the entire burden to U. S. shoulders. Commented the Sunday Times...