Word: cents
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cleveland Central High School is the largest high school in the United States, having an enrolment of 1,685 students. The public schools send over eighty per cent. of their graduates to high schools of the city...
Best general references: Gladden, Cent...
...will not be renewed; it may, in consequence, be objected that any money spent on the field would do no good next year. But next year or no next year, there is this year, and a large sum of money could be spent this year on baseball without a cent's being thrown away. Good diamonds, and not simply apologies for diamonds, are needed...
Seventeen years ago only 57 per cent. of all the college students used the library. In the last year, of the 1449 undergraduates only 299 failed to borrow books, and of this number 250 drew out "reserved books," of which no record was made at the General Delivery. This reduces the number of students, who made no recorded use of the library to 41 out of a total...
...ought, in justice, to be paid by the latter. If, then, this debt is added to the amount expended by the freshman crew last year, the total amount is found to be in the neighborhood of three thousand dollars. This whole amount must come from subscriptions, for not a cent is made at New London. Already, the class has responded with two thousand dollars, and we have no doubt that the other thousand will be forthcoming in time. We want, however, to point out the situation to Ninety-seven men and to ask them if they would...