Word: provinciales
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The last paragraph is the most memorable of all. It has been pretty thoroughly proved that Harvard is not becoming provincial. How the new regulations show a tendency to provincialism it is difficult to see. Men do not come to Harvard because the nine plays Princeton twice a year in...
Would it not have been just as fair to argue, before 1888, that Yale was becoming a mere side show compared with Harvard, as it is to conclude the Harvard is becoming provincial on account of the recent growth of Yale? Either argument is false and trivial because it is...
Again, Harvard from '82 to '86 made a total gain of 316, and 22.8 per cent. or 71 of these were from the west. Since 1886 we have 391, of whom 193 or 49,4 per cent. were from the west. That is to say the proportion of western men...
Rev. F. G, Peabody led the devotional services at vespers yesterday evening and Rev. Mr. Lawrence of Cambridge delivered a sermon. Taking a text from Luke 2-45 where Jesus is found in the temple by his mother hearing the doctors and asking them questions, he said that the young...