Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eighty-nine percent of the veterans in American universities are satisfied with the teaching they are getting, but half of them feel that instruction could be improved, a nation-wide poll just released by the Veterans Office proves...
...Only six percent of vets in New England schools said they were getting inferior or poor instruction, while 92 percent considered their instruction average or better. These figures are the best for the five geographic areas into which the country was divided for the survey...
This bridge is partially filled, in the case of married veterans, by earning from outside employment. In families with no children, 77 percent of veterans' wives do outside work, while the same figure for families with one child drops to 23 percent. The burden, in the latter case, is carried by the veterans themselves, half of whom seek jobs to augment their incomes...
Dean Leighton revealed yesterday that while 30.3 percent of '51's non-vets made Dean's List at mid-years, only 17.9 percent of the veterans did. Correspondingly, 24.1 percent of the veteran Freshmen this year were "unsatisfactory," as compared with 13 percent of the non-veterans...
Veterans' aid is becoming less significant, the report explains, because only 22 percent of the Freshman class are eligible...