Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School, where the numbers are also limited--too much, I believe, for the size of the plant, but the Faculty does not think so--the change in composition has been marked. Dean Edsall points out that in 1910 between sixty-five and seventy per cent of the students came from New England, while in 1930 the figures were reversed. This is the change that has taken place in many parts of the University from a local to a national appeal. He attributes the result in the Medical School to the presence of an increasing number...
...technical processes than a firm command of principles. The selection of the best candidates for admission is no simple matter; and in doing it college records alone do not suffice. So far as possible the men are personally seen. In fact members of the staff interviewed seventy-one per cent of the applicants, visiting eighty colleges; and this last figure is not large if we reflect that in the year just past every State was represented in the School, and graduates of two hundred and eleven colleges...
...would give a dole to the building and loan associations. He would come to the aid of banks with frozen assets. He would help foreign countries by the Moratorium. . . . To these interests he would give billions but to starving American women and children he wouldn't give one red cent. In the White House we have a man more interested in the pocketbooks of the rich than the bellies of the poor...
...usual, football was the only sport which paid its own expenses. From this source the H. A. A. took in $613,211.17 or about 57 per cent of the total income. All major sports showed a decrease in receipts compared with last year except crew which exceeded by $700 its income of the previous year...
Three eastern railroad executives have accepted the invitation of the Railway Labor Executives Association to negotiate the issues of wage cuts and of employment. Previous attempts at an agreement failed because the representatives of railway labor were unwilling to accept a ten per cent wage cut without a guarantee that the present number of men should continue to be employed...