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Word: percent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the present number of students in the University exceeds the 1941 total by 65 percent, figures show a 5.7 percent decrease in enrollment since last year. The decline follows the trend indicated in a recent New York Times survey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Large Schools Show Decline In Enrollment | 12/6/1949 | See Source »

Although many indicated shortcomings in their college educations, less than one percent said the college training they received was totally worthless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 99% of Women Graduates Favor College Education | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

Does college education for women pay? Do women actually benefit in later life from a college education? Ninety nine percent of 30,000 women college graduates, questioned by the American Association of University women, think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 99% of Women Graduates Favor College Education | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

Fifty-seven percent of the women suggested changes and improvements in college education, including a closer relation between college studies and life after college, more freedom in the selection of courses and more professional training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 99% of Women Graduates Favor College Education | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

Last year the title of the drive was simply "The Combined Charities Drive," in spite of the small type at the bottom of the card which said that 20 percent of the contributions go to the Student Council. The Council members acknowledged that this was a mistake, but they discovered it too late to do anything about it. This year the Council decided not to conceal its share of the drive and to give students the option of not contributing to the Council if they do not want to. At the top of the contribution card, therefore, appears the sentence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities and Council | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

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