Word: cents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knowles '61, who also visited the University of Massachusetts, described the college as "academically not comparable to Radcliffe." The college emphasizes the importance of fraternities and sororities, to which 50 per cent of the students belong, Miss Knowles explained...
...present 80 per cent of the students at Oxford and Cambridge rely on financial aid from government grants, while the figure ten years ago was only 30 per cent, Laslett stated. In addition, he noted, universities are equally dependent on support from the government's University Grants Commission to the extent that "Cambridge is virtually a state institution...
Despite a sharp rise in the number of required withdrawals in the College's upperclass group last term, there were "virtually no academic failures" in Leverett House. The number of House students with unsatisfactory standings was eight per cent, a low figure for "any House at any time," Gill added...
...Much, Too Soon and Sheilah Graham's Beloved Infidel. All three were bestsellers and earned more than $250,000 for 51-year-old Co-Author Frank (married, two children). Whatever he gets from working up the proper empathy with Zsa Zsa, he will deserve every cent...
Many Houses are using the money largely to attract "big name" visitors to their guest suites. But, to import a celebrity is expensive (he receives transportation costs plus a generous "honorarium," seldom refused). As Master Perkins explained, a House can easily spend 15 per cent of its yearly allowance on a single short-term visitor. Furthermore, celebrities are busy men, usually unable to remain in Cambridge more than a few days. Contact with students may be limited to shaking hands, trading pleasantries over sherry glasses, and a speech. It is never enlightening to hear a man--however great--repeat what...