Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools, colleges and universities alike, to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior minds, to the detriment of the best and with comparatively little advantage to the worst material there congregated. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University was recently reported as stating that 78 per cent of the college students of Columbia--undergraduates--remain in Columbia University or go to some other university for graduate and professional study. But, within twelve months of this surprising statement. Dr. Samuel S. Drury, Rector of St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H., confessed that "not over 75 per cent...
...older and better tested system of free high schools has been similarly overwhelmed, 50 per cent of all the children of proper high school age entering and spending from one to four years without compulsion of any kind. This is proof of a widespread faith in education, but it is also proof that Jefferson's idea of ruthless selection has not deeply affected its theory or its operation. There are 13,951 high schools of all classes in the United States, of which 632 enroll over 500 pupils, 278 enroll over 1,000 pupils, while the Los Angeles Commercial High...
...according to his abilities) was rendered partly unrealizable, for the time at least, by the financial crisis which still holds the nation in its grasp. The act itself, however, remains upon the statute books, and many of its most important provisions are in operation. The provision that 60 per cent of the salaries of teachers shall be paid by the Central Board, for example, still enables local boards to keep the standard of teachers high; while the provision that the Central Board may reduce the promised 50 per cent of total local expenses in the case of schools which allow...
...England has been training only leaders, America followers. Each nation has discovered and is correcting its error... America, in the name of equality, has allowed her higher institutions to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior, minds. Not over 75 per cent at St. Paul's School has the urge for higher education. . . Sound, sane informed leadership has failed the nation more and more as she has extended her system of wideopen training schools...
...charged that from 50 to 75 per cent of the students get little or nothing out of their tutorial work, regarding it as hardly more than a fifth course added to the schedule for three years...