Word: cent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...then referred to his own class of fifty-three members of whom 10 per cent. used intoxicating liquors, a much smaller proportion than the average class of today. None acquired the habit after leaving college, but those who had already formed the habit in college soon fell into confirmed drunkenness. It is during youth then, between 17 and 25, that a man's habits are formed. At that time he often has great confidence in himself that he will not transgress the limit which he calls soberness, but gradually he becomes more and more entangled until he reaches the border...
...CUMNOCK, Capt.LAWN TENNIS.- A mistake was made yesterday in announcing the rates for play on the dirt courts. Instead of "singles, 20 cents per player; doubles, 15 cents per player," they should have been, singles, 15 cents per player, doubles, 10 cents per player. Season tickets may be obtained from the man in charge of the courts, and not, as before stated, at the co-operative society store. Coupon tickets at a reduction of 20 per cent on cash rates, will be on sale on and after next Monday at the co-operative store...
JACOB WENDELL, Jr., Sec.LAWN TENNIS.- The tennis courts on Holmes and Jarvis, are now ready for use. The system of charges will be the same as last year. The cash rates for play are as follows: Singles, dirt courts, 20 cents per player, grass courts, 25 cents per player; doubles, dirt courts 15 cents per player, grass courts 20 cents per player. Season tickets good for the whole college year may be obtained for $5.00 at the Co-operative Society store, or from the man in charge of the courts. Coupon tickets will be on sale next Monday...
...propose two methods of protection of our rights. 1. If one in every twenty men in college would give a cent we could win one of the blue gentry who watch the ball games. The only difficulty is that the tormenters may be their own sons and heirs. 2. Renew the student-police which was in force about two years ago. I am ready to form one of twenty-five, to stand in the yard an hour with a bat and whang every mucker who dares to visit the yard...
...launch; the boat club in addition to this, itself, paid on this account, four hundred and fifty dollars, besides two hundred for a few minor alterations and the expense of getting the launch to Cambridge. The launch is now the property of the boat club and not one cent of money is owed on its account...