Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Emerson Dickman, former Red Sox pitcher who came out of retirement this season to coach the Tigers, claims that "pitching is 90 percent of college baseball . . . I want a tight defense and the best possible pitching." This sounds strange coming from an old American Leaguer, but Dickman, who worked for the Sox in the years just before the war, may have the pitching he is looking for in Bob Wolcott, Princeton's burler today...
...matter of (1) size of the glass, (2) amount of foam, and (3) percent of Scotch blood in the bartender. Right now a keg of beer yields between 190 and 220 ten cent glasses. Cronin's uses a nine-ounce glass, one of the largest around here, and settle for 190 per barrel. The Wursthaus, on the other hand, employs an eight-ounce glass, and works every barrel for well over 200 servings...
Perhaps the "most surprising" fact revealed by the poll is that 81 percent of the grad students are "at least fairly well satisfied" by their graduate training at Harvard, Wild stated...
Forty-six percent of grad students consider lecture courses "usually good," while only 37 percent said the same thing for seminars. Twenty-eight percent found faculty members "always available and ready to see students," and 52 percent thought that "professors go out of their way to be helpful when students see them...
Seventy-eight percent said that their Departments had not "made an effective effort to inform, students about careers open to them," while just 28 percent thought chances of getting a job "very good." This last figure, Dean Wild added, "reflects deteriorating employment conditions...