Word: cents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...second kind of ticket consists in a sheet of 25 coupons, each marked five cents. The price for play is as follows: Dirt courts for doubles, 10 cents a player, or 2 coupons; singles, 15 cents, or 3 coupons. Grass courts doubles, 20 cents a player, or 4 coupons; singles, 25 cents, or 5 coupons. Twenty-five coupons are sold for $1.00, so that by buying them a player saves 20 per cent. on the cash price. These coupons will be on sale next Monday at the Co-operative store...
...seek solace against this adverse "straw" in the fact that Cleveland was elected in 1884, although the vote of Yale was then also against him. It is also worth noting that the Democrats at Yale have recently made great gains. Since 1886 the Democrats have gained 92 per cent, increasing from 13 to 25, while the Republicans have increased more in numbers, but far less in proportion, or by only 37 per cent., from 70 to 96. If the boys think as their fathers do, the fathers are more numerously Democratic on Presidential issues than any one has yet found...
...protectionists. That this parity of numbers is merely a coincidence, however, appears from the fact that, although there were only eight Democrats represented in the vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats in the proportion of forty-two to thirteen. This too, without counting eleven who shrink from the name of free traders, but avow themselves revenue reformers...
...Harvard, in 1650, fifty-five per cent. of the students entered the ministry, but in 1875 only one per cent. became ministers. Harvard seems to have lowered in her moral character.- Syracuse University News...
...used "trots," gets a C or even a B in return for a few hours of work. A system which permits such rank injustice as this has no excuse for existence. The new marking system has been tried and has proved a failure. Many instructors mark in per cent. as before, and only reduce the marks to letters for the use of the office. The injustice of the system is intensified by the different standards of the various instructors, one says that his D equals 74 per cent., and another that it is equivalent to 65. No temporary palliatives will...