Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...respects the relation of the College to the University has changed within the last fifty years. The percentage of Harvard College students in the whole University has fluctuated as follows: In 1844-45 the percentage of College students was 42. It then gradually rose till it reached 52 per cent in 1849-50. Then it remained in the neighborhood of 50 per cent till 1855-56, when it suddenly rose to 55 per cent. It then declined somewhat, and from 1859 to 1864 it was again in the neighborhood of 50 per cent; but after the Civil War it declined...
...from invested funds declined only very slightly, and there was considerable increase of tuition fees. This increase in the College alone amounted to nearly $14,000. The reductions were felt by the instructors in three directions: Most of the appropriations for collections and laboratories were reduced by 20 per cent; the amount of printing done for the benefit of their classes were sensibly reduced; and the amount paid for assistants to instructors, outside the salary list, was diminished by 40 per cent...
...United States should be increased." Its speakers argued that the extended borders of this country could not be properly defended, in case of war, by an army of 25,000 men. They showed that by raising this number to 30,000, the expense would be increased only six per cent, arid that the added number of men would make possible the battalion formation, in which a large number of new men could be added at any time without trouble or confusion...
Thus it appears that out of fifty three men representing the highest attainments in the civic life, the literature, art, and science of Massachusetts, thirtyeight, or 72 per cent, were certainly college bred. Morton, the dentist, and Allen, the judge, must have had the equivalent of a college education in learning their profession. Where Bradford, Carver and Endicott were educated does not appear. Of the thirty-eight, Harvard claims twenty-five, viz., Bancroft, Prescott, Motley, Parkman, Emerson. Holmes, Lowell, Hunt, Channing, Brooks, Pickering. J. and J. Q. Adams, Dane, Quincy, Sumner, Parsons, Shaw, Story, Everett, Phillips, Devens, Bartlett, Peirce...
...will be seen that while the Yale society shows an increase in its business over last year of more than fifty per cent, its total sales to December 15 did not amount to one-fourth of the sales of the Harvard cooperative store to November 21 only...