Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading newspapers is an indication of how interested in and aware of current events a man is, then reclusive Yardlings truly "let the rest of the world go by," for only ten percent of Union diners buy newsprint. Even figures in the Houses fail to show a well-informed undergraduate, for the percentage is but 20 to 30 along the river...
Future plans of the U. N. Council call for a poll to be taken in the spring term to reveal the extent of student knowledge and the direction of student opinion about the United Nations. The survey was stimulated by a recent nation-wide poll which revealed that 30 percent of the American people did not know that the United States was a member of the United Nations...
...school incomes be raised to provide better salaries? Raising interest rates throughout the Nation would render university endowments and investments more profitable, but the only fair criteria for such an action would be its effect upon the Nation's economy. Hiking tuitions, which at Harvard account for 29 percent of University income, would also provide increased revenue, but a host of new problems even more fundamental to education than faculty salaries would arise...
...largest increase was in Government, as one-fifth of the men look for courses in that field. Economics added two percent over last year, while the newly formed Social Relations department attracted seven percent of the veteran-heavy group...
...swing toward Government and allied subjects, indicated earlier by class enrolment totals, has not affected the Humanities, where insignificant changes still leave 18 percent aspiring to letters...