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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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From this list activities limited to less than 5 percent of the men in the four classes are omitted. So also are swimming, equitation, and special corrective exercise, since these three are not subject to free choice by all members of the class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW HEADS LIST AS MOST POPULAR FRESHMAN SPORT | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

...this year's Freshmen class are smokers while the percentage in 1921 was 48 per cent and in 1922 was 37 per cent. There is probably some slight tendency to a decrease in smoking due to an increased participation in athletic exercises. In one of the graduate schools, 53 percent of the men smoke as compared with 54 percent in 1921 and 65 percent in 1922. At a rough estimate slightly over half of the college students are tobacco users by the time they graduate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICAL RECORDS SHOW IMPROVEMENT | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

...standing posture of the Freshmen seems also to have improved. Beginning in the Fall of 1919 the Freshmen have been graded in regard to their posture, and in that year over 80 percent were rated as poor and 35 percent as very poor. Since that time there has been very great interest in the work of body mechanics, which was inaugurated in the University by Dr. Lloyd T. Brown '03, and carried out by Mr. William H. Geer, and his associates. In the Fall of 1923, 68 percent were rated as poor and over 14 percent as very poor. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PHYSICAL RECORDS SHOW IMPROVEMENT | 1/3/1924 | See Source »

...lane and passed over to center ice in front of the goal; but every time his team mate assigned to cover the spot was behind, before or nowhere at all. McGill had hardly more than two good chances to score, but on both of these the Canadians profited 100 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M'GILL PROFITS BY ERRORS AND WINS 2-0 | 12/22/1923 | See Source »

...necessary for over 300 votes to be received before mid-night tonight if the election of Sophomore class officers is to be considered valid. Over 750 ballots were sent out to members of the class yesterday morning, and in compliance with the Sophomore Class Constitution it requires that 60 percent, or 450 members of the class, vote to make the election valid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOPHOMORES NEED 300 MORE VOTES FOR VALID ELECTION | 11/13/1923 | See Source »

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