Word: one-fiftieth
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...when business took the lead. At Yale the ministry competed successfully with law until after the middle of the nineteenth century, when law took the ascendancy and kept it until 1895, being then displaced by business. At the University of Pennsylvania one-fourth of the graduates used to go into the ministry; now about one-fiftieth do so. Oberlin College, founded with strong denominational tendencies, shows the same story of the decline in numbers of men going into the ministry. At the University of Michigan, out of an army of over 15,000 graduates, only 188 have become ministers...
...bills regarding the taxation of University property in the city of Cambridge were introduced by former Representative Julius Meyers, of Cambridge, at the State House, yesterday morning. One provided that any land in Cambridge acquired by Harvard University in the future should be taxed; and the other provided for the taxation of all colleges in the state whose property holdings amounted to more than one-fiftieth of the valuation of the town or city in which they were located. The provisions of this latter bill were that one-fifth of all taxes of such colleges should be exempted, one-fifth...
...boards of health existed, but the amount of their activities was not one-fiftieth of what it is today. The movement against tuberculosis is a striking example of the work that boards of health and hospitals are doing free of charge. All this free work threatens doctor's incomes and they feel it. More or less as a result of this the number of medical students in the country is decreasing...