Word: west
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unfortunate error was made in this column recently when speaking of some statistics about the numbers in this year's freshman class. Comparing the number of men drawn by the classes now in college from the west in their freshman years it was said that the number of western men in '95 is 50, while the number in '94 was 38, in '93 it was 34, and in '92 was 60. Of course this last number was a mistake; the number of western men in '92 when the class entered college was 39, and this is what it was intended...
...thirty-five minute halves were played. At 3.10 the elevens lined up as follows, Harvard at the west end of the field. with the wind at her back...
...investigation of the statistics of the freshman class has disclosed some interesting results concerning Harvard's hold on the West. The tide has turned, and instead of losing western support, as has been the case year by year for five years past, Harvard has gained from the West a larger number than she has had from that section since the class of '90 entered college. Last year there were only four men from west of Missouri, and this year there are eleven. But this is hardly a fair estimate of what is commonly called the West. Taking into account...
With this increase from the West, there has been a corresponding falling off of the men from Massachusetts. Although the aggregate number of students from Massachusetts is increasing every year, the proportion of the increase is not so great as that from other parts of the country. For example the proportion of the Massachusetts increase to the total gain in 1889 was 87 per cent.; in 1890 it was 71 per cent.; and this year it has fallen off to 53 per cent. And so Harvard is drawing even its undergraduates from broader fields...
...Storey then selecting representative States of the East and West, where an election for governor is to take place this fall, illustrated with an imaginary independent voter the influence which the local virtues or sins of either party should have upon the independent's vote. In Ohio and Pennsylvania he should oppose the McKinly and Quay rings, in Maryland and New York Gorman and Tammany should be overthrown...