Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enrollment figure will represent an increase of nearly ten percent, Miss Hildebrand revealed. The enrollment last year was 2686. Enrollment figures have risen steadily, she noted, since the end of the World War II veterans boom caused a slump...
...relatively short time ago only five percent of the college-age group were applying, but this figure has risen to 30 percent at the present time...
...problem of selecting from the large number of applicants for the relatively few places at the 50 leading colleges and, particularly, Harvard. He explained the applications pressure by both "an almost obscene desire on the part of the American public to procreate" and a sharp rise in the percent of college-age youths actually applying to colleges...
...salaries and other needed projects. To relieve this situation, the Program for Harvard College hopes to raise $4 million for increased financial aid endow ment. Even with these extra funds, however, the scholarship and loan program will put a severe financial burden on the University, and with a 20 percent increase in enrollment, the burden would be that much heavier...
...unduly ruffled. Both Dean Bundy and William Bentinck-Smith '37, assistant to the President, have aided him greatly with their broad knowledge of Harvard lore and history. Old film clippings, accumulated over the past fifty years, have also proved of great value: they will actually make up about 50 percent of the completed movie...