Word: ten
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...enormous percentage of gain in Harvard students from the Western States is due to the very small number of those students ten years ago. The small gain from the Pacific States is no doubt due to the development of universities there...
...thus appears that in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Middle States the influence of Yale as compared with that of Harvard has grown in the last ten years, while that of Harvard has grown everywhere else. It is safe, I think, to say that most of the students who would probably be drawn to college by love for athletics rather than for scholarship come from the East. Whether the recent success of Yale in the field of athletics and of Harvard in the field of scholarship can explain the tendency here noticed will never, I suppose, be mathematically demonstrated...
...last table shows the actual number of students outside New England and the Middle States at Harvard and at Yale, in the last catalogue and ten years ago, and the percentage of those students to the whole number...
This indicates in a still more striking way that Harvard has outstripped Yale west and south of Pennsylvania. Ten years ago fifty more students went to Yale from those states than to Harvard...
...seventy more students come to Harvard than to Yale. It may be added, that the only states in which Harvard has suffered much relative loss during the ten years in question are Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.- (Harvard Graduates' Magazine...