Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thirty-five per cent of all men now registering for the draft will be rejected because of physical disabilities," Dr. Arlie V. Bock '15, Oliver Professor of Hygiene, predicted yesterday. Dr. Bock asserted that the stringent draft physical restrictions now in effect will probably be relaxed to meet the President's recent call for a vastly enlarged army...
...garage managers around the Square say that students are using their cars from 25 per cent to 50 per cent less since the government restriction on tires went into effect. Cars are being used much less in the afternoons and fewer weekend skiiers are driving north. One garage owner stated that Harvard men were restricting the mileage of their cars 75 per cent...
During the last World War, enrollment at the Columbia Law School dropped off 90 per cent. Although Dean Morgan does not expect such a decrease, he stated that the number of law students has already fallen from the usual figure of 1300 to less than 700 and will probably drop much lower after this last registration and selection...
Mead disclosed that the enrollment of foreign students had grown over seventy-five per cent in the past year, with the exception of Japanese registration, which had fallen off sixty per cent before Pearl Harbor...
Beginning last year, the University, despite its $170,000,000 of investments, began to feel constricting economic pressure. Estimated income fell $25,000 short of estimated expenditures for the past fiscal year. In September the Departments took a 10 per cent overall cut. The Faculty assumed an increased burden of teaching. Tutorial work fell on fewer men and sections in larger courses increased. English A sections, for example, jumped to 30 students each. Meanwhile taxation's hand slipped more dollars from the professors' wallets. The Faculty falls neatly into the bracket whose income taxes have taken the biggest proportional leap...