Word: cent
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...NINETY-per-cent man at Commons really wants to know, and no fooling, how macaroni does grow, anyway...
WHAT is the law of the conditioned? 33 1/3 per cent...
There are some important changes since last year. Students have now to obtain seventy-five per cent of the maximum mark in any elective study in order to get on the "Rank List," which is five per cent higher than has hitherto been required, - a rule which will not increase the efforts of the diligent nor disturb the indolent, but will, if it has any effect, discourage rather than encourage others...
...student has to obtain "one half of the total maximum mark for the whole course from the time of his admission" to entitle him to the degree of A. B. This is a rather sudden and unexpected rise, and with such an extended "margin" as fifty per cent and the mark-et so variable we need not be astonished if "suspensions" are of frequent occurrence...
...slough at the end of your journey through life." This principle of justice carried out religiously through the space of thirty years, made Amos Lawrence one of our most wealthy and honored citizens. "I made it a rule," he says, "to have property to represent forty per cent more than I owed"; and, following out this rule, he rose from a very small beginning to great opulence, as did likewise his brother Abbott, who came to Boston "with his bundle under his arm and $ 3 in his pocket" to enter into partnership with his brother. We might mention similar examples...