Show western students t a in eastern CaIl colleges egea among the many things over which their has been a friendly rivalry between harvard and yale tor for years is the matter of drawing students from the west twenty years ago yale had much the larger number of students from the western states the catalogues cataloguer catal for 1871 2 showing the presence at yale of 37 students from ohio indiana illi rois kentucky missouri wisconsin bowa owa and michigan and att at harvard of 39 students from the same states though harvard had none from missouri or iowa ohio and illinois led in the number the former sending 35 to yale and 26 to harvard and illinois sending 21 to yale and 6 to harvard ten ren years later harvard showed a very tn marked ar k ed increase mere i ase though hav mg none in michigan she had in the other states previously named with the addition of minnesota 71 students while the number at yale from the same game territory was 93 As before the majority of the students came from ohio and illinois the former sending 22 to harvard and 27 to yale while illinois sent 18 to harvard and 35 85 fa yale at the end of the third decade in the year 1891 1691 2 each dach university showed a large increase the ratio at harvard being greater than that at yale in that year yale had students from the states named and harvard ISO ohio sent seni 36 to harvard and 37 to yale illinois 44 to harvard and 51 to yale missouri 18 to harvard and 23 to yale and minnesota which twenty years before had no boys in either university sent 13 to harvard and 12 to yale students in the sheffield scientific school were not included in these computations new haven letter latter |