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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...conclusions about the statistics used by the CRIMSON. He cannot understand why the recent gains of Yale over Harvard with respect to western men should be called accidental. Taking the Advocate's figures between 1878 and 1886, you will find that the number of men at Harvard from the west rose from 191 to 348-a gain of 157, while the number of such men at Yale increased from 288 to 410-a gain of 122. Perhaps the writer is not aware that Yale has made its extraordinary growth during the three years beginning with '87-'88. Until that year...
...quite true that Harvard has gained since 1882 264 men from the west, to 235 for Yale. Equally true is it that since 1886, Yale has gained 213 such men to 193 for Harvard. But this increase has been made in the usual ratio. Between 1882, and 1886 the ratio of their gain was 22 from the west with a total gain of 38. I claim that it is not far wrong to say that the great increase in the number of western men at Yale is abnormal, just as it is fair to say that the immense growth...
...increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south and west rose from 44 in Harvard '91, to 49 in Harvard, '92; and at Yale in the same classes from 45 to 54. The difference between a gain of 5 and one of 9 is trifling in itself; and yet if the same ratio were kept up, Harvard 1901 would have...
...return again to the percentage of western men it is evident that since Yale is not making a greater gain in numbers than Harvard, it cannot more than hold its present lead, while if Harvard increases the number of its constituents from the west, whatever the percents may be, it will eventually surpass Yale. From the analogy of history this result is not only possible but likely: so that the surprising discoveries of the Harvard papers do not furnish Yale so much to brag about after...