Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...total number of students was 11,195, while today the number amounts to 15,084, an increase of 4,889 or thirty-three per cent. The rank of the first six colleges during 1886-87 was as follows: Harvard first with 1,688 students; Michigan next with 1,572; Columbia third with 1,570; Yale fourth with 1,134; Pennsylvania fifth with 1,088; Cornell sixth with 1,489. In 1891-92 Harvard still keeps the lead with 2,658; Michigan next with 2,622; Yale has risen to third place with 1,784; Pennsylvania moves to fourth place with...
...Colleges should adopt some new plan. - (a). To protect genuine scholars against the loss of time caused by the slow progress of idle classmates. - (b). To enable professional students to shorten their college course: Nation, XLIX, 425. - (c). This is shown by decrease in per cent. of college graduates. - (1). In professional schools: Ed. Rev. I, 4-5. - (2). In the population at large: Harv...
...degradation of the A. B. degree would be injurious. - (a). To the higher scholarship. The A. B. degree has always been the standard of a liberal education: Pres. Eliot in Cent. Mag. June, 1884, p. 203 - (b). To secondary schools, by fitting poor teachers: Wm. C. Collar in Boston Journal, April 4, 1891. - (c). To Harvard's influence for it reverses her policy of raising the standard, pursued for the last thirty years: Minority...
Seventy-five per cent. of the colleges established in the United States during the last twenty years have been in the Southern States...
From the records of Yale College during the past eight years it is shown that the non-smokers were 20 per cent. taller than the smokers, 25 per cent. heavier, and had 66 per cent. more lung capacity. In the last graduating class at Amherst College the non-smokers have gained in weight 24 per cent. over the smokers; in height, 37 per cent., in chest girth, 42 per cent., and in lung capacity, eight and thirty-six hundreths cubic inches...