Word: westing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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LOST.- Left in Upper Mass., Feb. 1, two volumes Principals of Pol. Econ., by J. S. Well, together with Laughlin's Synopsis. Please send postal to Geo. L. West, Mass. lnst. Technology...
...most interesting article in this number is the communication on the comparative growth of Harvard and Yale in the west. A careful reading shows that the charge that Harvard is becoming provincial is wholly indefensible. Taken in connection with the long article in yesterday's CRIMSON, it is most reassuring to all who are jealous of Harvard's reputation...
...figures of the Advocate correspondent for 1889-90 are so utterly wrong that it would be impossible to correct all the mistakes in them without going over the whole ground again. The true number of men here from the west (using the west shortly for the United States outside of New England and New York) is 458, instead of 541, as the Advocate correspondent has it. It is easy to calculate that 458 is 22 per cent. of 2079. Yet the Advocate correspondent makes 541, almost 100 more than 458, only 20.6 per cent. of the same number. Errors such...
...than ever before. In every single representative state the proportion of Harvard men to Yale men is larger than it was in '69-70, and in every state but two larger than in '79-80. In some cases the gain has been wonderful. Yale had many men in the West when Harvard had none; since then Harvard has been quite steadily gaining, and never with greater rapidity than in the last decade. Surely Harvard men have no reason to feel discouraged, and Yale men no reason for boasting...
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...