Word: percent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statistical record of Harvard College for the year 1924-25 as tabulated in the reports of Dean Moore and Dean Greenough presents significant variations from the form. For example, whil the percentage of Seniors seeking distinction has increased in one year ten percent and in two years eighteen the proportion actually achieving it has slightly fallen off. The wish is evidently not father to the deed. The much heralded post-war renaissance of study seems at first sight not to go beyond the vaporings of a fatile ambition. If, however, the undoubted fact be weighed that the college's four...
...reasons why each man registering for summer employment was asked to specify several different kinds of jobs was that it was expected that a great many men would ask primarily for jobs as tutors or tutor companions. It is probable that more than 60 percent of the men who are registered for summer work have asked for consideration on this type of work...
...itself sufficient to guarantee admission." What apparently establishes a sharp departure from all existing precedents is qualified in the next sentence by the statement that "the Committee, however, will give, as heretofore, preference to all candidates qualifying in the regular way. . . whose examination average is unquestionably good (75 percent or higher). . . .". thus promptly making an exception to the ruling immediately preceding...
Upon one important aspect the circulums are silent. They assert that character, personality, and promise will be given equal weight with scholarly attainment in passing upon each individual candidate,--always excepting, of course, the bracket above 75 percent which enters regardless,--but there is no direct explanation of the method by which these factors will be guaged. The unprecedented requirement of a photograph is one means; in all probability even greater importance will be attached to recommendations of headmasters of schools. But the ruling foreshadows still another innovation. Some system of personal examination, particularly in doubtful cases, appears a necessary...
...percent who are in the tutorial system contains far more than 42 percent of the leadership of the two upper classes. The men who make undergraduate opinion are now for the tutorial system and an education. If the promise of this condition is fulfilled, Harvard College will have made a most important addition to the practice of college teaching and restored itself to the position of a national college by reason of its excellence and in spite of its location...