Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rally chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 struck out last night at the claim of the National Association of Real Estate Boards that tenants would accept a 15 percent increase if they received a year's lease, declaring that "the hardships which such an increase would work on untold numbers of citizens, especially home-hungry veterans, and the blow that lifting of controls would deal to the entire veterans housing program are of such magnitude as to demand immediate response from everyone. This response must be clearly evident Tuesday night at Rindge Hall...
...Over 60 percent of the graduates turned toward the professions, with law showing the greatest attraction. The legally-minded made up close to 20 percent of Harvard's graduates during this period (classes of 1880, '81, '94, '95, 1912, '24, '25), with medicine, secondary-school teaching, college teaching, literature and the ministry following in irder. About eight percent of each class became doctors, while, at the other extreme, literary pursuits claimed but 3 percent. In business, over one-third of those connected with business were concerned with financial work, while trade and production followed in very close order. Production...
...background of Harvard men, it was computed that, while a greater percentage of public school graduates did honor work in college, this situation was reversed in life, where even a greater percentage of private school men achieved note, caused in part by family positions and contacts. Totally, some 20 percent of each class attained some prominence within each field (prominence being defined as inclusion in the professional yearbook. or "Who's Who"), while men with honor degrees achieved high places within the professions twice as readily as did non-honors men. As a final commentary, the surveyor, John B. Knox...
...complete with fifth, tenth and twenty-fifth reunions, the regular meeting of the Alumni Association and all the workings of an integral part of the Harvard picture. More than half of the men who graduate at any commencement can be expected at one of the reunions; more than 75 percent can be expected to take part in alumni activities...
WASHINGTON, December 11--The CIO adopted today as a basis for its new wage drive a report contending that industry can afford to raise wages up to 25 percent and still keep profits at near wartime peaks without boosting prices...