Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cessation of basketball, activities for the mid-year examinations in the Intramural basketball league tournament, found the Falcon club team and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity team tied for first place in the Alpha division of the league. Each team has a rating of 1000 percent in the standing of the teams. In the Beta division, the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity and the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity teams were tied for first place honors. These teams also have a rating of 1000 percent in their standing in the tourney. Since the Law School does not have any examinations, teams...
...computes the total number of Harvard men at 50,000-a liberal figure and assumes that all jobless and disgruntled sons of Harvard are registered at Wadsworth House, the proportion is very close to five percent. And this, in view of current theories as to the demand and rapid advancement of college-trained men in all lines of work is almost alarming, especially if one be a Senior. Thirty members at least, of the class of 1928, now on the threshold of the arena of life, are doomed, if form holds, to be unemployed or dissatisfied with their work...
...drilled in rapid reading: a corresponding growth in the assimilative powers was verified by tests. Lectures were given on habits, attentiveness, mental hygiene, memorizing, and choosing a vocation. The results that the grade of this group in intelligence examinations has been raised, and that the group is seventy-five percent successful in college and is on the up grade are interpreted as twin justifications of the scheme...
Thirty three and one third percent of the gross proceeds from the sale of the articles will go to the owners, and similar amounts will be divided between the Syndicate and its editors. The Syndicate will defray all cost of printing, distribution, exploitation, and sales: keep the accounts, make collections, and in general conduct all the business matters connected with the service...
...Yard" contains news of the University that graduates would not otherwise recive. In 1927, 4,800 men contributed a total sum of $150,00. Compared with 1926 this shows an increase of 20 percent in the amount contributed, and 45 percent in the number of contributed. On January 1 the Fund begins its third year...