Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...smaller number to start with, gain more proportionately and at the same time gain less in real numbers. Let us suppose that we have two cities-one with a population of ten thousand and the other with five hundred thousand. The former makes again of one hundred per cent. in a given time, while the latter only gains four per cent. The writer of the communication thinks that because the small town is making a greater proportional growth it is actually out-stripping the large one. Now when the small town gains 10,000 inhabitants the greets one gains...
About twenty-five per cent or the largest number of a class study law; about twenty-five per cent. business; then comes medicine and teaching with about twelve and eight per cent. respectively. The following is a list of the "intended occupations" of each class since...
...side. These reports are placed in the college library, but are not for general inspection. The incomes received by Harvard graduates are very hard to estimate. It may be said approximately that when about thirty years of age or ten years after leaving college about twenty-five per cent. receive from $4,000 to $6,000; fifty per cent from $2,500 to $4,000; the remainder from...
...discovery that Yale receives a larger percentage of its students from the west than Harvard. This dicovery is based upon certain statistics published by two Harvard papers which argue that since the number of students at Yale from Connecticut and New England is nearly stationary and the per cent from the west is increasing, while the per cent. of such men at Harvard is more nearly stationary, Yale is laying a surer foundation for future growth than Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west. In 1820 we did not have a single...
...from century to century. The argument that Yale has gained more students in proportion to her former numbers during the last three years than Harvard and that on account of this Yale is destined to surpass Harvard is fatuitous. Unless Yale gains not merely in per cent but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind; and whatever may be true for the last three years, during the present year, Harvard has gained not only more numerically, but more proportionately than Yale. The same is true when we consider the past ten years, the past twenty...