Word: western
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...take some of the representative western states, and see how great, as a matter of fact, the relative growth of Harvard and Yale during the last twenty years has been in them. The first of the following tables gives the number of men sent to Harvard and Yale respectively during '69-70, '79-'80, and '89-'90 by those nine western states which send the largest number. The second table shows the percentage which the number of Harvard men bore to the number of Yale men at the end of each of the three decades...
...Cornell glee and banjo club will make a western trip during the spring vacation...
...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 of the whole college in late years is abnormal...
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 in our gains is now more than twice as great as it was five years ago. Between '82 and '86, we gained on an average 18 western men a year, since 1886 we have gained an average of over 38 men a year. This year we gained 51. Does this...
...base the above argument on the figures in the Advocate. Any one may satisfy himself of its truth in five minutes. It is quite true that the college proper has gained only 13 western men in the past year and has not been gaining as fast as Yale in this respect for some time, but I argue that there is nothing in the least alarming in this fact, because the facts for a few years show nothing of the tendency of the college...