Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although there is fear of receiving facetious answers to questionnaires of this nature, Stouffer felt that, as on Army polls he conducted during the war, as many as 98 percent have been serious and candid...
Anxious to find out why people come to Harvard, the Laboratory of Social Relations quizzed more than 95 percent of the Freshman class yesterday and Wednesday, probing into economic, sociological, and psychological reasons in a 12-page questionnaire...
...three other gentlemen who will take similar seats on next year's Waltham council are seasoned incumbents, whose re-election was seconded by an unusual 70 percent turnout...
Bender's main work, however, is not making plans, but seeing merely that things run from day to day. He welcomes all students with difficulties, but especially the rough ten percent that gets "involved" with the delicate machinery of parietal and scholastic rules; in these cases, Bender is both judge and jury. He probably champs at the bit at many of these interviews, while he plans a Harvard that is a more socially conscious community...
...such a reduction led the University to solicit a tremendous amount of "gifts for immediate use." These gifts which hopped from about one million dollars in 1926 to seven million in 1929, tugged Harvard safely through the crash. They were not, however, sufficient to block an average twenty-five percent tuition rise throughout the University...