Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Michigan, 1 North Carolina...
...captains of the Yale, Harvard, Franklin and Marshall, Institute of Technology, and University of Michigan foot ball elevens, are graduates of Exeter...
...editorial in which this error occurred has been made the subject of comment by the paper of the University of Michigan, which takes this occasion to ridicule our pretensions to any strength in the West. Adding the figures given by the CRIMSON this paper makes a total of western men in the freshman classes at Harvard for the past four years of 182, and goes on: "This is the total for all the West, or about four-fifths of the United States. Now look on this: At the University of Michigan last year there were 223 students from the Eastern...
...England States, and New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, furnishes a great deal more than half of the students in college today. But leaving this aside and attending to the figures alone. The 223 mentioned above represents the number of men in all departments of the University of Michigan; but the 182 represents only the western men in the four college classes here; and not all of them, for in the junior and senior years a great many graduates of western colleges join the classes. Some accurate figures taken from the catalogues of the two universities will be interesting...
...interesting to note here that it was also the U. of M. Daily which figured that Harvard with 2613 students is not as large as the University of Michigan with 2527, because the latter institution expects to add 274 more men to her numbers before the end of the year. It may be that the loose system of registration at Michigan, which permits students to register "in large numbers until the second semester begins in February," will bring about this large addition. We should think it might. Just at present, however, Harvard leads. And if the number of students...