Word: faster
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...country, while Yale would have 279. This is merely an illustration. It happens that from '89 to '93, while Yale rose from 37 to 52, Harvard actually fell from 47 to 41. Under these circumstances it is not enough to proclaim that Harvard always has gained the faster, and therefore always will...
...Harvard. Now the fact is that Yale started much ahead of Harvard in the west. In 1820 we did not have a single student from beyond the Alleghanies, while Yale had many from beyond the Hudson river and even from the Western Reserve. Since that time Harvard has grown faster than Yale in every way. Our constituency in the west has grown until at the present day there are very few more western men in New Haven than in Cambridge. In 1878, the year at which the statistics start, we had less western men than Yale, and the same...