Word: gain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale Alumni Association of New York numbers 608, a gain of 324 in fourteen months...
...found that Yale had prepared laws that would benefit Yale and reduce her opponents. Harvard, with a spirit which all colleges would do well to imitate, begins at home and enacts a series of laws for the purification of Harvard athletics, regardless of the advantages her adversaries might gain by them. As a result Harvard has to elect a substitute to captain her baseball team and her crew is seriously handicapped. But what of that? The victory is Harvard's, whether she win or lose, for she has taken a higher stand and bound herself to a loftier standard which...
...Cornell Register for 1893-94 shows that the Ithaca institution has maintained its normal growth during the past year. Its total number of students is 1,752, compared with 1,665 last year. A noteworthy gain has been in the number of graduate students, which has increased from 155 to 222. The most interesting figures, however, are those which show the distribution of the 1,267 undergraduates among the various courses. They are as follows; Electrical engineering 322, mechanical engineering 234, civil engineering 115, arts 136, philosophy 117, letters 84, science 86, agriculture 25, architecture 96, medical preparatory 5, optional...
...have been personally appealed to by Captain Davis and have promised him that they would work for the crew; they have therefore not only been indifferent to class interests but have broken their promises. This indifference will prove an invincible barrier to the crew if it is allowed to gain a general hold on the class. We would suggest that the football men especially take more interest in the crew; there is need of stronger men and the need grows greater and greater from...
...difficulties that oppose Christian work in college life are three-fold. The body of students is continually changing, so that it is hard to gain and keep a foot-hold in any work. Secondly, men become so absorbed in their studies that they are wont to devote their leisure to recreation. Thirdly, few men come to college interested in Christian work...