Word: cents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council recoiled horrified at the idea of the undergraduates sacrificing their rights and luxuries, and when the Council put the questions up to a College vote, the students voted against both measures. Only about a third favored the compulsory 21 meal rate and a mere 10 per cent liked the self-help system...
...boom while continuing to avoid major taxes. More flagrant even than that, as a minor speaker at the congress of the National Association of Manufactures threw in their faces the other day, the highly paid executives have been raising their own salaries. Admitting that his figures of 18 per cent salary boosts were "scandalous", the speaker, a Tennessee congressman, proceeded to leave the N. A. M. meeting and fly to Washington to cast his ballot along with 90 per cent of his sectional representatives in favor of the Smith bill...
...competing on intellectually even terms with state universities instead of offering customers a superior brand of education. Since the University's only bargaining point is its educational advantages, it cannot afford to slice out of its budget more than the most lacy of frills. Even the ten per cent cut last spring weakened the props of the tutorial system, the basis of the College's superiority...
...greatest number of those who chose to enter Harvard graduate schools went to the Law School, which had 37.3% of those taking graduate work here. The Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences and Business Administration each received 10% of the group. Ten per cent went to the Medical School...
Less obvious but just as sound is the generalization that Harvard tuitions emanate from the rich. The upper five per cent of the nation forms the backbone of the clientele that patronizes Harvard and buys for its sons the education which Harvard has to sell. Even scholarship students, varying amounts of whose scholarships are paid from endowments, come from a relatively well-to-do portion of the community. It is doubtful whether many students, even the National Scholars, have fathers who carry union cards...