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When I walked in and sat down at The Crimson's spot on press row, I was overcome with noise, like some tidal wave had hit me. The Penn band led one-third of the audience in a verbal Quaker orgy, while the Harvard band tried to spark its fans into cheer...
Cosentino, who specializes in business counseling, says that, as a rule of thumb, approximately one-third of those students will be offered jobs...
Despite the warnings, however, Davis says that students continue to misread the Guide--for instance, many falsely assume that because one-third of respondants praised the textbook, two-thirds did not like it. As the introduction would explain, the two-thirds likely had no opinion...
...One of the biggest problems concerning women at Harvard is the rate at which the female Faculty are tenured. Despite the significant improvement made in the first five years of President Neil L. Rudenstine's administration (24 percent of all tenured appointments have gone to women), the fact remains that since 1991, the percentage of senior women on the Faculty has only increased from 9.6 percent to 11.5 percent, an annual rate of change of less than 0.4 percent. At this rate, it would take almost 55 years for the fraction of tenured women at FAS to reach one-third...
...About one-third of all undergraduate English concentrators sent in a petition this year asking the department to abolish general exams. Talusan, one the organizers of the petition, says that "the idea of a unified canon is obsolete...