Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rear of his present store, owing to the large increase in his business since opening the young men's department. the spring stock will be the finest ever imported, and the prices will be found only a trifle more than is charged for poor style and work. 10 per cent. reduction to all members of the university...
...oldest members of the faculty, but assumes only self-imposed obligations. He receives no remuneration, and many of his duties are far from enviable; yet the proportion of private docenten to the total number of the university teaching force during the last fifty years has been about 25 per cent., and the last five years show an increase even over that number. Professor Francke gives comparative tables showing the percentage of work done by regular professors and privatdocenten in "general" and "special" courses compared with that of "full professors" and "instructors" at Harvard and Cornell in elementary and advanced courses...
...reach by spending the necessary time; they will now begin on work which only picked men can master. Mr. Alexander will insist on men rowing with their heads. It has been said that in rowing men the essentials for success are in the proportion of brains 75 per cent., pluck, 20 per cent, and strength 5 per cent. Freshmen seldom appreciate this fact. They would be surprised to find how many small and comparatively weak men have rowed on university crews...
...Exeter among the seniors, Furman and Grover of the Exonian board will come to Cambridge while Stothers goes to Yale. Of the four Literary Monthly editors three will enter Harvard. The representation in general, according to the above figures, which will enter Harvard is something like 50 per cent, while Yale gets about 18 per cent. This is just about the same position in which the representation stood last year between Yale and Harvard...
From these figures it will be seen that 61 per cent. of the athletes have received appointments...