Word: percent
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...president. Mrs. Parks started in as a $110-a-month secretary, is now assistant treasurer of Boston's Provident Institution for Savings, one of the oldest mutual savings banks in the country. She thinks that women are right at home in banking. After all, she says: "Seventy percent of the wealth of this country is in the hands of women...
Dean Godolphin has stated his objective. He sees no solution to the problem other than the acceptance of the entire college into the clubs, an institutions he expects to last for quite some time. But as he points out, the jump from 90 to 100 percent should be accomplished all at once, and, of course, as soon as possible. Should the percentage increase only gradually, non-acceptance would soon prove harder for, say, four percent of the college than it now does for ten. Other theorists, far in the minority, propose that a 60-10 ration would be even better...
...Princeton continues to fight for 100 percent club membership, those clubs wishing to keep their numbers at a hand-picked minority argue that they just haven't got room for any more members. True as it is that the average club has doubled in size before the war, and now averages about 90 members, there are holes in this arguments. Most members will individually admit that every club could manager to survive by absorbing its share of the unelected students, an average of ten apiece, without seriously affecting its dining hall service or over-crowding its other facilities. And then...
Whatever the excuses may be, the majority of students can find no causes for leaving out the 10 percent. As the Princeton pointed out following last spring's bicker, in a body of young men capable of gaining admission to Princeton "there is no such animal as a socially undesirable student." To solve the situation, the paper called for "more initiative from the men on Prospect Street," the same sort of initiative that got the whole system rolling seventy years...
...College counts this as part of school spirit. But he can't take a date anywhere except gymnasium dances and juke-box joints until the middle of his sophomore year, when he gets into one of the seventeen eating and social clubs. Unless he's in the unlucky ten percent...