Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fall of this academic year, all members of the Arts and Sciences Faculty received an indirect increase of five percent; the increase was non-taxable because the University merely assumed the full cost of the pension fund payments...
...percent felt that hey have some from of religious belief for a fully nature philosophy of life...
...percent thought their concern over the ultimate meaning of life had increased while at Harvard...
...religion distributed to students, only 150 of them were returned. One would imagine that the greatest number of men who did not take the trouble to fill out the questionnaire were those of undecided, agnostic or atheistic opinions. That is, the council statistics might be as much as 25 percent off; the statistics, too, probably have a "pro-religious bias...
Many of their statements are made possible only by interpreting the sixty percent agreement that "some form of religious orientation...is required for a fully mature philosophy of life,"(from the Council report) to mean a pilgrimage en masse to houses of worship and a dynamic religious rebirth. Even H.D. Aiken might go along with such a vaguely all-inclusive phrasing as "some form of religious orientation." From many such statements as "increased concern over the ultimate meaning of life" equated with manifestations of religious zeal of the Norman Vincent Peale variety, the article derives its resounding afflrmations about religion...