Word: westing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale News congratulates its college on the discovery that Yale receives a larger percentage of its students from the west than Harvard. This dicovery is based upon certain statistics published by two Harvard papers which argue that since the number of students at Yale from Connecticut and New England is nearly stationary and the per cent from the west is increasing, while the per cent. of such men at Harvard is more nearly stationary, Yale is laying a surer foundation for future growth than Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west...
...from eight in the morning until six at night. The following men have signified their intention to go into training immediately: short distances-Johnson, Ogden, Little, Deveraux, Starr; for the 440 yard run-Warwick, Frazier, Thayer, Heidekoper, S. W. Smith and Bowman; in the half-mile run-Warwick, West, S. W, Smith, Terry, Hill, Heidekoper, Beaumont, Whitney, and W. O. Griffith; one mile-West Beaumont, and S. W. Smith; hurdlers-Little, Ogden, Harris, Deveraux; high jump-Webster, Howard, Little, Oberholtzer, Lee, and Webber; weight men-Bowser, Harvey, Waugaman, Fair and Van Loon; broad jump-Goodwin, and Ogden; pole vault-Field...
...Amateur Athletic Union will close on February 1, 1890. An entrance fee of $2 which must accompany the entry for each event, should be sent to J. E. Sullivan, P. O. Box 611, New York. The contests will take place at the New York Athletic club, 104 West 55th St. The finals are appointed for Saturday, February 8, at 8 p. m. The time for holding the preliminary contests will be appointed by the committee when the entries are closed...
...freshman football teams. The writer shows fairly conclusively that our past freshman victories are no omens of university success. The other subject treated under this head is the "Growth of Harvard and Yale," and the writer concludes his article by saying that if the west continues to prosper as it has done hitherto, and if Harvard continues to rely on New England, Yale will grow with the west, and Harvard will fall back to the pace of New England...
...Editorial" compares Harvard's recent freshman class to Yale's in the distribution of the members, and shows that Harvard has lost in her percentage of students from the west and south and made a striking gain only in Massachusetts, while Yale has lost less in the west and south and gained most in New England, outside of Connecticut and the Middle States. The writer predicts from these facts greater future developments for Yale than Harvard unless our undergraduates are more ready to undertake "missionary work" in the distant states...