Word: cents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over 1000 signatures, representing 95 per cent of the Yard population and 39 students in Dudley, approved the request for this new "experiment" in freshman parietals...
...indications are that the decline of voluntary commuters who can get admitted will continue." Bender explained, "and will finally hit a floor at around three per cent of the student body." Non-resident students now comprise nine per cent of the College...
...remedial reading class, with an enrollment of 450, "has shifted from teaching the mechanics of reading to developing courage and judgment," Perry stated. "Its large enrollment demonstrates the degree to which students who can already read better than 95 per cent of U.S. freshmen realize their short comings...
Dartmouth, then, outplayed, outrebounded (45 to 36), and outshot (47 per cent to 34 per cent) the underdog varsity. But an encouraging note was struck in the preliminary contest when the Yard-lings swamped the Dartmouth freshmen...
When the House system began, 22 per cent of the student body were commuters, and now the figure is only 9 per cent. "But if the cost of going to Harvard continues to increase, Leighton states, "this drop in the number of commuters might be reversed...