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young men desiring higher training by offering superior courses of 

 study, but later, when college graduates began sending their sons, the 

 alma mater was the first choice and was the college finally selected 

 unless the opportunities were far greater at some other institution or 

 else for economic reasons a near-by or home college was chosen. Now, 

 when great efforts are put forth by the authorities of a university 

 to keep pace with its foremost rival, this 'going away to college' is 

 very great as may be seen in the accompanying table. 



The small number of Boston students who do not attend Harvard 

 suggests the fact that there is in this city a preponderance of Harvard 

 alumni, and the large number of students from New York at Harvard 

 and Yale illustrates a similar condition, as does also the small number 

 of Boston, New York, Connecticut and Philadelphia students at Chi- 

 cago, though in this last instance distance doubtless exerts some in- 

 fluence. 



It is evident that in the manifold centers of instruction with stu- 

 dents from practically all the states, the process of 'freeing themselves 

 from local prejudices and jealousies' is more effectual than if there 

 were congregated at one place numbers so great that state associations 

 would be formed for social reasons. 



In Germany the migration of students is encouraged, and in this 

 country the Association of American Universities is endeavoring to 

 formulate a plan by which students may pass from one institution to 

 another, receive credit for work wherever done and return for his de- 

 gree to the university at which he matriculated. 



In 1790 state capitals were as far apart in time as national capitals 

 are to-day, and the prejudices and jealousies that now differentiate 

 people of different nationalities are no greater than those that in 

 Washington's time separated the citizens of the various states of the 

 Union. And though the nations of the world will never be brought 

 under a single government, the desirability of removing national 

 prejudices is as great now as was a century ago the elimination of 

 state jealousies. The logical conclusion therefore would be that the 



