Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weekly in dispraise of "industrializing education" and "unionizing professors," publication of which coincided with the A. A. U. P.'s meeting in Cleveland (Time, Jan, 12). Last week he performed again. In a letter to the Weekly he calculated the maintenance cost of new Yale buildings at 6 per cent per annum, which would represent the income from a fund greater than the whole original building cost not, as is generally assumed, the income from a fund equal to 25 per cent of the original cost. Professor Henderson found "that each additional million cubic feet. . .in buildings draws from general...
...suppose it will be necessary to stop paying professors' salaries altogether, so that the wages of the president, the janitors, window washers and scrubbers can be met." Professor Henderson's figures as to the proportion of university income paid to professors; at Johns Hopkins, 65 per cent; University of Chicago, 52 per cent; Princeton, 42 per cent ("pretty fair"); at Yale 40 per cent ten years ago, 34 per cent last year, with income more than three times as large. "It will be even less this year," lamented Professor Henderson, whose own salary is understood to be from...
...weighted average of the team representing Exeter was 90.44 per cent; the school next in order, with 89.81 percent, was the Lawrenceville, New Jersey School, last year's winner; in third place was the Boston Latin School, with 87.92 per cent. Since the term of seven years for which the trophy was offered for annual competition has now been completed, the permanent award will be made. Boston Latin School is the winner, having gained the trophy four of the seven years...
Contending that vast university building programs result in underpaid professors, Yandell Henderson, professor of Physiology at Yale recently made known percentage figures of the amounts of university incomes devoted to salary use. Yandell's figures are as follows: Johns Hopkins 65 percent; Princeton 42 per cent; Yale 43 per cent; and Harvard 23 per cent. No estimate as to the relative total income figures was named reported, but Harvard was named as the leading fire in this present lamented state of things...
...drug store chains, the third and last of a series of chain store reports, will be published within a few weeks by the Bureau of Business Research of the Harvard Business School. The two preceding bulletins revealed that grocery chains could undersell independent competitors by about ten per cent but that in the field of chain shoe stores no great difference was apparent...