Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writer in Friday's CRIMSON who objected to the line of argument used in your editorial of the day before would probably have remained silent had he perceived the fallacy of the argument from percents. He cannot see how Yale may, with a smaller number to start with, gain more proportionately and at the same time gain less in real numbers. Let us suppose that we have two cities-one with a population of ten thousand and the other with five hundred thousand. The former makes again of one hundred per cent. in a given time, while the latter only...
...writer of the first communication, instead of putting the old question of "What is the matter with Harvard?" asks, "Is anything the matter with Harvard?" His answer is that Harvard is all right or at least will soon be so. Our present position in athletics is the result of forcing athletics into a position of false importance. The faculty, the alumni and the [students are awakening to this, and the tendency of the faculty is "to bring about that spirit of broad culture in athletics which is characteristic of English university life, where athletics supplement the true purposes and enjoyments...
...Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, in which is drawn out, by the light of the most recent researches, the gradual development of the English constitutional system and the growth out of that system of the federal republic of the United States. Mr. Taylor is a writer of the school of Freeman and Fiske, who find in constitutional history a gradual evolution of the principles of government. To students of American history the introductory chapter on the English origin of the federal republic of the United States will be of the greatest value. This aspect of our history...
...first subject treated under "Topics of the Day" is the 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...
...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...