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According to this it will be seen that the Exeter representation at Harvard will be 28 per cent. while at Yale it will be 21 per cent., a loss of 13 per cent. for Harvard and of 2 percent for Yale...
This means that 64 percent have attained to distinguished grades of scholarship and so far from lowering the average or making no impression one way or the other upon it, they raise the whole standard of the University...
...graduates of Vassar College, 315 or a little more than 36 percent. have married...
Your question the validity of conclusions drawn from percentages, explaining that "unless Yale gains not merely in percent. but gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind." It would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south...
...further reduced from day to day; but nearly all books unsold at the end of the week will be held at their old prices. Almost the entire stock (the exceptions being a few text-books and several books just purchased) is offered at an average loss of ten percent. A few of the notable bargains...