Word: classing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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From the freshman classes as given in the catalogues are first eliminated the names of men who have entered college the preceding year and been dropped a class, and also those of men who have entered the class regularly, but who had been in their university the preceding year as special students and thus got a few courses to their credit. The first interesting comparison is in the number of men of the firet kind,- "dropped" freshmen. The large number of these men at Harvard shows the strict discipline of our college office, but is partly accounted...
...statistics are remarkably alike but what difference there is points always to the greater difficulty of staying in Harvard. In the case of every class the figures show that a smaller percentage of Harvard men were able to get the degree in four years or less than was the case at Yale, the difference being 4-10 percent. in '94, 4 9-10 percent. in '95, and 3 per cent. in '96. In regard to the number of men getting their degrees in five and six years the statistics are again slightly in favor of Harvard, while the percentages...
...YALE. CLASS OF '94. HARVARD...
...Size of Freshman class in catalogue...
...From Freshman class of preceding year...