Word: cents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Germany during the last five years the number of university students has increased 26 per cent., while the total population has grown only 50 per cent. One man in every 213 now takes a college course in that country; one in every 200 in the United States; one in every 600 in Scotland...
Great political enthusiasm is manifested this fall at Yale. Democratic, Republican and Prohibition clubs have been formed and each of these has organized a batallon. The greatest interest at present centres in the Democratic club. Its membership has increased more than eighty per cent over that of the last campaign. The battalion, under the name of the "Sumner Guards," contains about two hundred...
...appeared last week, and on its lists were enrolled three hundred and twenty-six freshmen, two hundred and five in the academic and one hundred and twenty-one in the scientific department. The number in the freshman class at the Sheffield Scientific School is an increase of fifteen per cent. over any previous class in that department of the University. More than sixty men have entered the law school this fall making this the largest class on the records of the school. Following the example set by the other parts of the University the medical school has entered a class...
...second speaker for the affirmative was Mr. F. B. Williams, L. S. He said that the old issue of the Republican party was dead. The present issue is tariff reform. The Mills bill is not free trade, for it retains an average duty of over 40 per cent. The present duty on lumber ought to be abolished, for it only protects Canadian workmen who are cutting off our forests in Maine...
...nine have been compiled from the official scores of the Harvard scorer. The averages show work which, if unsuccessful, was highly creditable to the nine and its captain. Bates, Henshaw and Gallivan led the league in their respective positions, while Willard's average was but 11 per cent, behind that of McBride. In batting, Knowlton led the nine with an average of 376. In the record of stolen bases, Knowlton is ahead, with Quackenboss a close second...