Word: cent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...class has expanded beyond the discussion stage. What little personal contact one does make during the half year is gleaned solely from the altogether too brief weekly laboratory sections. With three hours of laboratory work crammed into a two-hour session is it any wonder that 90 per cent of the enrollment finds itself cranking adding machines in Boylston through most of the Reading Period...
Another dean when consulted said, "It's all right if you don't charge anything." Directors of the bureau thought this unfair, however, considering it only just that they get their 25 cent registration fee and their nominal sum fee of 15 cents for each date given...
...high correlation between success in college and success in the Law School, and that there is a marked variance in the standards of performance required in the colleges. For example, one New England college of high grade sent 72 men with approved records of whom 62.5 per cent failed, and only two obtained an honor grade. Of the men who attained in college a mark under 82, three quarters failed, none received an honor grade, and less than 12 per cent received a respectable grade. Another New England college sent 65 men, of whom 20 per cent failed...
...plan will provide for contributory insurance, with both the College and employee contributing what is believed will be 4 per cent. About 2100 persons will be affected...
...experiments were made after research by Van Deventer that about five per cent of all cars or enclosed trucks on the road admit some amount of the gas into them. It was determined that the presence of one part of the gas in a thousand parts of the air would cause the average man to faint after inhaling the mixture for from half an hour, if he was sitting still. If moving around, the time for the mixture to have effect would be even less...