Word: percents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of meals eaten by freshmen in the Houses during last month's introductory program increased more than 50 percent from last year, William A. Heaman, Manager of the Dining Halls Department, has announced...
...speaker stressed that the question of the huge oil reserves lay behind both the Suez Canal issue and the East-West controversy over the Middle East. He gave estimates which put the Middle East reserves between 67 and 75 percent of the world total...
...peer of any in the world. As a result, the Harvard Classics Department engenders a remarkable amount of enthusiasm and camaraderie among its students--bordering on exclusiveness. As a somewhat surprising and certainly encouraging tribute to the vitality of the field, the Department's enrollment has increased thirty percent in the past year...
...month" program has called for a reexamination of the current selective service system and a consideration of what the draft situation will be over the next two or three years. Each year approximately 1.2 million men reach the draft age of 18 1/2. In the recent past, about 13 percent of this group has not been drafted and about 22 percent has been rejected as physically unfit. Of the former group, a small percent belonged to the National Guard, but the majority escaped all service...
There are currently 187,000 eligible 1-A's of age 22 who are not fathers. Nearly 25 percent of them will be rejected as unfit, leaving 140,000 draftable. This means that some 21-year olds will be taken, unless the 180,000 figure is lowered. Some of the available 22-year-olds will join some reserve plan, putting additional pressure on the 22-year age group and cutting further into the 21-year-old group. If conditions continue in roughly the same manner, the draft might be calling on 20-year-olds...