Word: percent
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interesting, in this connection, to note the advance in her libraries which Harvard has made over the other colleges. In none of them are the libraries so well equipped or so generally used as at Harvard. The statistics at Yale show that the percent of students using the library is much below that of Harvard; and that of the books which are used, by far the greatest portion are works of fiction. Such facts would seem to indicate that the method of conducting the courses at Harvard is largely to account for the increased use of general literature. This method...
According to this it will be seen that the Exeter representation at Harvard will be 28 per cent. while at Yale it will be 21 per cent., a loss of 13 per cent. for Harvard and of 2 percent for Yale...
This means that 64 percent have attained to distinguished grades of scholarship and so far from lowering the average or making no impression one way or the other upon it, they raise the whole standard of the University...
...graduates of Vassar College, 315 or a little more than 36 percent. have married...
Your question the validity of conclusions drawn from percentages, explaining that "unless Yale gains not merely in percent. but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind." It would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south...