Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...attention as a school at present than the steady change of sentiment that has set in within the last few years in favor of Harvard as opposed to Yale. We have always been known as a Yale school; but a Harvard element had developed lately which threatens to overturn the ancient order of things and place us in the category of Harvard schools. A few years ago almost all our graduates went to Yale. As late as '80, only three or four went to Harvard, with probably twenty or twenty-five to Yale. Last year we believe the numbers were...