Word: percents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University is willing to continue the practice of subsidy on the ground that House Dining Halls are a good thing. In any case the subsidy should not come from those who do not think University dining Halls are a good thing as is the case with the twenty-five percent of absentees at the Freshman dormitories or the hypothetical group of House residents who will not eat their entire allotment of fourteen meals...
...Incidentally, you'd be interested in a swell story I heard the other day about a trial out in New Jersey. This fellow was up on a charge of selling beer. The defense was that it wasn't more than one half percent and they'd leave it to the jury to decide. The jury took the whole batch of beer, about 50 bottles or so into the jury room. About three hours later they came out well plastered, and damned if they didn't render a decision of guilty." The lawyer for the defence jumped up and said 'Those...
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be unable to play large universities like Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Illinois...
Only 30.4 percent of all those taking the examinations were successful; and in the reading Latin test, but 20 passed out of a possible 172 men. Thirty-two students attempted the elementary French of whom only six were given a passing grade. In elementary German, out of 80 candidates, 26 were successful, and of the 82 students taking the reading German test, 30, or 36.5 percent, were successful. Reading French was the most popular, 551 students taking the examination. In this test, a large proportion, comparatively speaking, was successful, 198 passing the requirement...
...course it is still one which the sub-freshman will do well to take steps to avoid. His chances of getting one of the really good section men are not great, and it would be well if the whisper still flew about the preparatory school quadrangles that seventy-five percent in English Cp. 4 outclasses ninety-five in any other subject as far as actual value received is concerned...