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...different colors of Jerseys, tights, Skull Caps, Sweaters, etc. he can show you more variety, better quality, and later novelties in gymnasium goods than any other store. His advice is, save your money and avoid a fancy prices when you can get the same article for 30 per cent. less at 436 Harvard street...
...nearly horizontal line in the lower part of this diagram shows that the increase at Yale is from 500 to 563, or 12 1-2 per cent., while the dotted line of Harvard's progress indicates an increase from 419 to 1,068. or 155 per cent. In other words, the mere gain at Harvard amounts to a greater number of students than Yale has ever had in its Academical Department! If for ten years longer these ratios of increase should remain unchanged, in 1895 Harvard College would be teaching over 1,700 students, while only about one-third...
Harvard, again, is not without honor in its own country. In twelve years the undergraduate attendance from Massachusetts has increased 27 per cent., or from 475 to 606. Yale, too, shows a small increase - less than 9 per cent. - in the Connecticut contingent. It used to be the old cry that Harvard was a local institution, while Yale was cosmopolitan. In 1873 no less than 62 1-2 per cent. of the students that flocked to Yale, came from the West, the South, and the Middle States. Today the proportion is about the same. But Harvard has in the same...
...work inspires. In 1873 there were 60 of these at Yale; now there are but 42. Harvard in 1873 had 55 post-graduates; in 1885 the number had increased to 72. During this period the pecuniary allurements of post-graduate study had increased at New Haven over 300 per cent.; at Cambridge they had less than doubled...
Great parade has been made of the increase in the teaching staff of Yale College. In 1873 there was 80, now there are 114 instructors - an increase of 42 1-2 per cent. At Harvard they have increased from 100 to 184, which nearly doubles Yale's percentage. Yale claims to have erected in fifteen years buildings costing $700,000. Harvard, between 1869 and 1881, used $2,307,305 for the same purpose. It is customary for Yale apologists to put forward many excuses for the college, which allege lack, not only of funds, but of any spirit among alumni...