Word: percenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Today, despite its vast wealth, Harvard must plan carefully in order to stay out of the red. It is not easy for a University to cut expenses. More than fifty-five percent of last year's $25 million expenditure went into wages and the fixed salaries of permanent "Corporation appointees," while another twenty-five percent was eaten up by equipment and supply needs. The remainder went out to scholarships and prizes, retiring pensions, and that old accountants stand-by, "miscellaneous." Few major cuts can be made, if Harvard is to continue to provide its traditional facilities. The faltering tutorial system...
...result of a survey, and forty miles of pitted streets were repaved at one-third the previous cost. While reducing the city debt from $12,000,000 to $2,000,000 and dropping the tax rate $10.80, the Councilmen favoring Plan E managed to effect a forty percent salary increase for all city employees, buy $1,200,000 worth of war surplus equipment for $300,000, and appropriate $1,500,000 for permanent veterans housing. The majority of these improvements were passed by a slim 5-4 vote in the nine-man Council. Any decision by Cambridge voters either...
...community surrounding the college seems bounded by the same limitations. It is easy to remain oblivious to the needs of a world outside the Houses and feel satisfied with a tight little circle of friends and what extra-curricular activities the University has to offer. With only three percent of the student body entering into social service work, the College does not realize its potential donation to the Cambridge community and too many undergraduates sell themselves short on an experience that can be a vital part of their education...
With better than 35 percent of the past two senior classes plus a smattering of pre-1945 graduates, taking advantage of the placement office's facilities, Teele has only two letters from applicants showing dissatisfaction in their present jobs...
Many employers feel that there should not be any placement problem at the University, for, as a representative of Proctor and Gamble told Teele, "All boys at Harvard have openings in their fathers' concerns." Last year's poll of the College, however, showed that only five percent of the undergraduates awaited such soft touches, but Teele has a hard time convincing the bosses...