Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University of Wisconsin has adopted the system of allowing one-tenth absences from recitation. Students obtaining a rank of 85 per cent. are exempt from examinations...
...from Massachusetts. Although the aggregate number of students from Massachusetts is increasing every year, the proportion of the increase is not so great as that from other parts of the country. For example the proportion of the Massachusetts increase to the total gain in 1889 was 87 per cent.; in 1890 it was 71 per cent.; and this year it has fallen off to 53 per cent. And so Harvard is drawing even its undergraduates from broader fields...
...extravagant - (a) Amount expended on pensions in 1866 was $13 000,000; in 1876, $28,-000,000; in 1886, $64,000,000, in 1891, (estimate of Sec. of Treasury) $133,000,000; Hall, p. 17 - (b) Germany's appropriation is $9.000.000; Century XLII, p. 183 - (c) Only 72 per cent. of the appropriation goes to the soldiers' Hall, p. 19. - (d) The Arrears Act of 1879 cost the nation $500,-000,000; Hall, p. 7. - (e) Acts are passed without careful consideration of what they will cost; Ibid...
...sunny room at 6 Acacia St. Bath room. 50 per cent. discount. Apply today between...
...well feel a special interest in its success. It is no exaggeration to say that it saves thousands of dollars to the students of the University every year, both directly to those who buy their books and furniture from it, and indirectly to those who never spend a cent in its store, for by competition it has forced the tradesmen of Cambridge to abandon their former extortionate prices. The success of last year is in great measure due to the large business done, but a great deal of its due to the very able way in which the affairs...