Word: cents
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...condition, to be removed in the usual way by performing the corresponding work in some subsequent year. A student, however, whose absence from examination is excused, may, if he prefer, obtain a special examination; but the maximum mark at any such special examination will be only sixty per cent of the maximum mark of the examination for which it is substituted...
...maximum mark by allowing the subject of the examination to stand against him as a condition, "to be removed in the usual way." It is, moreover, probable that a large proportion, if not a majority, of the cases of excused absentees will be unaffected by the sixty per cent maximum provision, since the marking will be done on a scale of a hundred, and not of sixty. That is, full credit will be allowed for a sixty per cent knowledge, but all above that goes for nothing. It is likely that most of these men will be perfectly content with...
...that "stuffing" which is characteristic of the season; but there is one subject of self-gratulation which is never wanting to Yale, namely, the great success of its graduates in political life, which it attributes to their college training in such things. It now appears that "nearly ten per cent" of the college-bred men, members of the Forty-second Congress, were graduates of Yale. If society wire-pulling is the proper school for a successful politician, let no one longer wonder at the venality of Washington...
...Tripod gives us the surprising information that the Northwestern University will soon be the "richest on the globe," but growls that "it does not spend a cent for the support of its paper." Perhaps this is owing to the fact that the "Faculty and Christian students" are indulging in a religious revival, usually an expensive excitement. "The watchword is the NORTHWESTERN for God and His Christ." We now find the answer to that much-vexed question, Why does not God kill the Devil? Of course, he left him to be killed by the Northwestern University. Now, indeed...
...young women have done better than that; they have raised the average of conscience and manliness and decency more than ten per cent...