Word: percents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stress upon international exchange followed the introduction of information, attributed to the New York Times, by delegate John Silverstone '49 to the effect that 40 percent fewer European students are studying in the United States this year than last while a correspondingly larger number over last year study in Russia...
Unable to compete on this favored level, undergraduates must rely on the circulation desk to supply those books not included on reading room shelves. With overflowing stalls and misplaced books defeating an already poor circulation system, well over forty percent of the books requested cannot be delivered. A more effective method for recalling stall caches and the enforcement of stack regulations regarding misplaced texts is necessary if Widener hopes to give undergraduates any degree of satisfaction...
...About 40 percent of the men belong to fraternities, all of them upperclassmen. Unlike some mid-western universities. Dartmouth has been careful not to let the Greek letters dominate campus politics. Fraternity men do not band together to back their own candidates for office or foist their whims on a neglected student body. In the tremendous camaraderie that is Dartmouth life, they fail even to develop the exclusive clannishness for which they are most often criticized...
...itself Fascist, but neither did the German National Socialists. And General De Gaullo's principles of nationalism, militarism, and an anti-labor policy, enforced by a strong central executive, all sound familiar. In fact, the whole procedure are sounds familiar--the "non-political" rallies, the unified core of 40 percent against a divided opposition and an apathetic majority the shrieks about a red menace, and finally the complacent satisfaction in America at the sight of Communism foiled. The whole thing has the horrible aspect of a once van quished vampire coming to life again...
...Mount Holyoke conference on recommendation of its special screening sub-committee which interviewed applicants Friday. the food situation was stalemated last night. The Council Food Committee reported that Aldrich Durant '02, business manager, told it recently that in the interests of conservation he could effect an overall 10 percent cut in food without lowering dietary standards, but reiterated that he could not specify what foods would be saved or how much the saving would...