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five of these have graduated, seventeen of tliem with honors, two 

 receiving the A. B. and the A. M. degrees simultaneously. Of the 

 ninety-one men who have not graduated, but have been in college 

 long enough to make a record, a little more than half have a 

 record above " C." President Eliot says in his annual report, 

 " This record is a very creditable one, and shows conclusively that 

 the persons who have thus far entered college without Greek are 

 abundantly able to profit by their college life and to win a stand- 

 ing, which is, on the average, above that of those who entered 

 with Greek." 



At the time I made inquiries (one year ago) there were in 

 Harvard University forty-eight graduates of the Boston English 

 High School, divided as follows : undergraduates, thirty ; gradu- 

 ate students, two ; special students, six ; scientific school, one ; 

 medical school, eigh' ; law school, one. Seven graduates of the 

 Boston English High School took their degrees at Harvard the 

 preceding June (1891). Some idea of the rank of these seven may 

 be obtained from the fact that they received the fourth, sixth, 

 eleventh, thirteenth, fifteenth, and twenty-first scholarships. The 

 seventh did not take a scholarship, as he did not need it, but he 

 received honorable mention in natural history, and was assigned 

 a commencement part. Of the other six, three graduated magna 

 cum laude and two cum laude. Eight English High graduates 

 received their diplomas at Harvard last June. Of these, one re- 

 ceived the degree summa cum laude, three magna cum laude, two 

 cum laude, and two without distinction. One of these, Lovett, led 

 his class, was editor in chief of the Harvard Monthly, was the 

 class-day poet, and was the best-known literary man in college. 

 He is at present instructor in English at Harvard. Under date of 

 September 36, 1892, President Eliot wrote me the following letter : 



" Harvard Unitersity, Cambridge, September S6, 1892. 



" My dear Sir : The standing in college of the young men who 

 have entered Harvard College from the English High School of 

 Boston without Greek has been remarkably high. Speaking 

 from my general knowledge of the college standing of boys from 

 different schools, I should say that the standing of these high- 

 school graduates has been, on the average, higher than the aver- 

 age standing of the graduates of any other school in the country. 

 I have not yet made an actual comparison with figures ; but I 

 propose to do so, and to state the result in my next annual report. 

 I suppose, however, that it would be just to state that the boys 

 who have come from the English High School to Harvard College 

 are picked boys ; they do not represent the average of the school. 

 I had some conversation with Mr. Waterhouse on this subject 

 last July at Saratoga, and I wrote him a note giving the standing 



