Word: cents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Some inquiring mind has put a slip among the "Notes and Queries," in the Library, asking: "How many men at Harvard are in favor of prohibition? If you don't know, guess." There are several answers, denoting a varied process of guesswork: 96 per cent.; 2 per cent.; 47 per cent.; 53 per cent.; 90 per cent.; 10 per cent.; 66 2-3 per cent.; 33 1-3 per cent.; 0 per cent.; 1-5 per cent, and 1-100 per cent...
...their bequests should become prize scholarships to be fought over by the competitors on a petty rank list? Is it conducive to the development of manhood and of scholarship for its own sake that students must become the slaves of annual marks and that the difference of one per cent should debar them from obtaining needed assistance at one of the most trying periods of their lives...
...gone hand in hand? It is said that the laborers suffer from the tariff, even if they do not perceive it, because, although wages are higher, the cost of living is raised by protection. Colonel Wright's careful statistics prove that while the cost of living is 17 per cent. greater here than in England, wages are 50 cent. higher. It is the high price of our labor that makes our products cost more than those of foreigners. If labor were to be regarded as a commodity to be bought and sold in the cheapest market, by all means...
...sale has been started, to last from March 19 to March 31. Nearly all the stock of general books, and many books used for reference and as text books have been reduced in price to such an extent that there will be an average loss of about 10 per cent...
Forty per cent. of Williams students are from New York and 32 per cent. from New England...