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...Princetonian has figured that at Yale thirty per cent. of the Freshmen room in the college buildings; at Harvard, forty-eight per cent.; and at Princeton, eighty-four per cent...
...expert in it An elective such as the one suggested, would undoubtedly be very popular, and we can see no objections which the college authorities could raise against a plan which would benefit such a large number of students,-it is estimated that at least fifty per cent. of Harvard graduates become lawyers,-and the expense of which would be so slight; for it would only be necessary to engage some expert in Boston to come out here and deliver two or three lectures a week...
According to the Princetonian, 70 per cent. of the students of Princeton are church members...
...amount, say five or ten, or a certain percentage be added to each mark has considerable weight. There can be no doubt that the greatest evil of the marking system is that no unity or equality of standards, seems to be attained by the body of instructors. Fifty per cent. with Prof. A may often be set against seventy or seventy-five per cent. with Prof. B; in courses which require very nearly the same amount of work and brains, the marks often show an appalling difference. An interesting comparison has been made between the marks of two courses, which...
...Annex has increased in attendance nearly 50 per cent. since it started 6 years ago, while Vassar has fallen off 100 students since...