Word: perring
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...directors of the Co-operative Society voted on Thursday to declare a dividend of 9 per cent. on the business of the past year, and this vote was confirmed by the stockholders of the society at their annual meeting yesterday. This dividend, which will amount to $18,705.30, is the largest dividend disbursement in the 29 years of the Co-operative Society's existence. It will be paid at the main store during the second week of November...
...likely to be, some interesting conclusions may be drawn from the relative percentage of public and private school men that enter the Freshman class at Harvard and at two of her sister colleges. Figures taken from the last report of the Dean of Yale shows that 28 1-2 per cent. of last year's freshman class there prepared at public schools; the official figures of this year's freshman class at Princeton published in the daily papers show that 27 per cent of its members come from public schools. In contrast with these, the statistics given...
...further interesting to note that of those men who entered by the new plan of admission 84 per cent came from public schools. As an increasing number of men may be expected to enter by this plan in the future it is also possible that the proportion entering from public schools in the future may likewise be raised above the present 51 per cent...
...thus be seen that of the 140 who were allowed to take the examinations only 83, or 59 per cent., were successful, and of all the 186 who applied but 44 per cent, were admitted. The proportion of men successful under the old point system is of course much greater. Another interesting fact in this connection is that several students who failed by the new plan in June were admitted by the old method in September...
...clubs or societies wishing to use rooms in the Union must have 80 per cent. of their number members of the Union, and must fill out application blanks at a time sufficiently in advance of the desired date, so that the room may be conveniently assigned to them. Clubs holding their first meeting in the Union may, however, do so without having 80 per cent. of their number members of the Union...