Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...annual wail of a desperate crew management is again put in print before a Freshman class. It is a peculiar phenomenon that year after year when the time for departure to New London approaches, a large per cent. of first year men are found to have been wanting in class loyalty to such an extent that they have considered themselves unable to support their crew. In the tardy, most men are out riding, rowing, or playing tennis till very late in the afternoon, and do not return from dinner in time for a 7 o'clock concert...
...this country. At the same time the character of this immigration has deteriorated. At the present time over one-half of the immigrants come from those races of southeastern Europe, which assimilate least readily with the Anglo-Saxon race. It by no means follows because a large per cent. of the immigration of the past has been assimilated with the native population that all of the immigration of today, of a different size and of a decidedly inferior quality, will be assimilated in the future...
...part; The eensus of 1890 shows that a large part of the recent immigration from Southern Europe, which is mostly illiterate, lacking in funds, and unskilled, settles near the Atlantic seaboard, and congests unduly in our cities. According to the great slum report, from 77 to 95 per cent of the slum population of our great cities is foreign. From three to seventy times as many of the foreigners in the slums are, however, from Southern as from Northern Europe...
...cent., 87 1-3. Per cent...
NOTICE to College Men.- As I handle the agency for Cambridge for the Dayton, White, Hunter, Featherstone's Road King and Road Queen. Prices $30 to $75. A discount of 10 per cent. on any wheel we handle will be allowed to college men. All kinds of repairing done promptly, as our workshop is down stairs. Anything your need in the bicycle line we have it. Machines to rent and machines taken in trade...