Word: per
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...dropped from the class at the end of last year, the Dean says: "Inquiry into the origin and record" of these men "yields no clear explanation of their failure; it shows, however, that, if public schools contributed to the Freshman class their usual proportion of between thirty and forty per cent., they succeeded somewhat better than private schools in sending pupils who weathered the Freshman year. Inquiry shows further that, students from private schools in and about Boston have in College peculiar social distractions...
...political question, purely English is open to considerable discussion. Mr. Lehmann in athletic matters is truly one "whom Harvard men can never forget" but in political matters we also have anti-imperialists who do not stop at such expressions as "unutterable criminality." Yet somehow their phrases don't per se prove the government wrong...
...mortality in the British concentration camps during the last seven months according to official British reports outclasses anything of the sort ever reported in Cuba. During three months more than 15,000 of the women and children so confined have succumbed. This means a death rate of over 2 per cent per month,--or over 25 per cent per year. In other words, the present policy if maintained would obliterate the entire Boer population in less than four years. Even in December when it was claimed that great improvements had been made in the arrangements of the camps, there were...
...addition would place upon the Club--the purchase price of the land amounting to $121,000 and the cost of the proposed extension reaching $75,000--it was decided to raise $50,000 through personal contributions, and to carry the remainder of the amount temporarily in mortgages at four per cent. The committee entrusted with procuring the funds now announce that over $40,000 of the necessary amount has been subscribed and the rest of the money will doubtless be obtained before April 1, when the conveyance of the property becomes possible. The new building, for which definite plans will...
...income yielded by these investments in 1900-1901 was $567,332.39. The available earnings of the general investments of the University (that is, funds invested as a whole and representing roughly 5-6 of all the investments, the balance being specially invested) amounted to 4.7 per cent on the principal, 14-100 of 1 per cent more than the rate of the preceding year. The total amount of gifts for capital account (that is, gifts for creating new funds or for increasing old funds) was $826,669.43. The total amount of gifts for immediate use was $129,497.77. These figures...