Word: southerners
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...their development during the past year are contained in the following table of sectional representation. The country is divided into four sections: northeastern, comprising New England, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; central, comprising Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin; western, comprising all states west of the Mississippi; and southern, comprising all states south of Pennsylvania and east of the Mississippi. Foreign countries make up a fifth division. The table shows the number of graduates and undergraduates now at Harvard and Yale from each section, the increase in numbers over last year, Harvard's majority over Yale in each section...
...above table shows that 79 1-4 per cent. of Harvard students come from the northeastern section, 8 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 6 1-2 per cent. from the western, 3 3-4 per cent. from the southern and 2 per cent. from foreign countries. At Yale, 75 3-4 per cent. are from the northeastern section, 9 1-2 per cent. from the central section, 7 3-4 per cent. from the western, 5 per cent. from foreign countries. Of all the men attending the two universities, Harvard has 63 per cent. from the northeastern...
...much interest felt in the production of tropical foods, fruits and fibres, that a branch garden, under the direction of the Harvard Botanic Garden, might prove attractive and very useful. The whole subject is now receiving careful consideration and the most favored plan contemplates the establishment, in southern Cuba, of an experiment station which could be employed by advanced students who desire to familiarize themselves with the general features of the cultivation and improvement of tropical plants...
...discovery of twenty-three variable stars. A new star was also found in the constellation Sagittarius. Perhaps the most important investigation undertaken during the year with these photographs was the search for the planet Eros during its opposition in 1894. The detailed study of the spectra of the southern stars, also obtained through the Draper telescope, is approaching completion...
...Haida pole, 25 feet in length and is one of five carried away recently from Cape Fox Village by the Harriman Scientific Expedition. The pole was obtained for the Peabody Museum by Mr. Charles Palache. Cape Fox Village, which is on the mainland about 50 miles above the southern boundary of Alaska, was abandoned by the Indians twenty-five years...