Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...another year the announcement of the mid-year records of students reveals an increase in the percentage of men achieving Dean's List standing. There are 599 men on the list this year, or 18.3 percent of the total undergraduate registration, as compared with 579 last year or 17.9 percent of the enrollment...
...done since the close of the paroles upon which they were released. The 500 men we have traced, representing two years' releases, were all between the ages of 17 and 25 while at Concord, and it is a notable fact that we have been able to follow up 90 percent of them...
...audit. While it is well known that a business house cannot run for long without keeping books people seem to take for granted that society can continue its century-long existence without them. Considering the woeful inadequacy of American criminal records, the fact that we have followed up 90 percent of the men in question is extremely significant of the possibilities of a thorough system...
...granted at the end of the Sophomore year and that regarded as a certificate of graduation and honorable dismissal for those who do not wish to pursue the university course further." This idea is carried still further by Professor Root of Princeton who recommends that only 50 to 75 percent of the entering class be retained as Juniors the remainder being eliminated on both competitive and comparative standards. These figures are not so startling as they might at first appear for an examination of the present enrolment at Harvard shows that the Freshman Class numbers 950, and the Senior Class...
More men smoke in the class of 1929 than in the Freshman class. 362 Sophomores smoke while only 294 Freshmen use tobacco. This is a decrease of four percent...