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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...representation according to the above figures which will enter Harvard is 41 per cent., while Yale gets 23 per cent. This shows a loss of 9 per cent. for Harvard and a gain of 5 per cent for Yale over the figures of last year. In numbers Harvard has gained one-third, while the Yale contingency has just doubled...
...following list gives the standing at Yale of the editors of the college papers, as shown by the appointments held by them. A list of the appointments held by the athletic men was published a short time ago and a comparison of the two is interesting. Sixty-eight per cent. of the editors have received appointments and sixty four per cent. of the athletes, thus showing that the athletes push their literary brethren very close...
...catalogue shows that we have 2,271 men from whom to select a crew, while Yale has 1,645. With an advantage of over 27 per cent. we have at least as good a chance to pick a crew physically perfect as has Yale. I have been told by recent Harvard graduates that while at Yale the best men get on the crew, at Harvard a seat in the boat is largely the result of social or society finesse. If this be true, while I doubt it, it ought to be stopped. Of course of two equally good oars...
...York University, in discussing "The Place of Church History in the College Course of Study," said that there were one hundred and fifty typical American colleges, leaving out Catholic and State colleges, and every one also that had less than fifty regular students. He found thirty per cent. of these teaching Bible history and the Bible. Eighteen per cent. taught church history proper in some forms; Harvard and Johns Hopkins as an occasional elective; Yale, Boston University, Haverford and New York University more often. Fifty per cent. of these colleges taught something of church history in connection with the study...
From these figures it is found that 64 per cent. of the athletes have received appointments...