Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Statistics show that, in 1859, 75 per cent. of the students in the colleges and universities of this country were farmers' sons, while in 1890 there were only 3 per cent...
According to Chauncey M. Depew a college education adds 300 per cent. to a man's productive powers...
Eighty per cent of college editors adopt journalism as their profession...
...price received by the bank seems a good one, measured by the assessed value, which is $342,500. It is said that the property will not return more than 3 1-2 per cent. net on purchase price - that is after the taxes, insurance and other expenses in its management are deducted from the rentals...
...Cornell Christian Association has compiled the statistics of the religious position of the students there. Of the freshman class, only 15 per cent. are not church members or church-goers. 53 per cent. of the men who entered the college last term are members of churches in good standing and 27 1-2 per cent. have joined the Y. M. C. A. Of these 125 have become active members while 14 are associates. 270 out of the freshman class of 1891 are members of churches. In the class of 1892, however, there are 74, or nearly twice as many...