388 CAROLINE H. ROBINSON 



A superiority to Harvard, of equal proportion, is shown in the birth rate 

 per marriage and a yet greater superiority in the birth rate per graduate. 

 Harvard fails of replacing itself by 32 per cent but our men by only 18 

 per cent. 2 



TABLE 1 



Graduates, marriages, and children — -Eastern Coeducational College, classes 

 1896-1912 inclusive 



Men, single, surviving 35 



Men, single, deceased 11 



Men, single, total 46 



Men, been married, surviving 268 



Men, been married, deceased 21 



Men, been married, total 289 



Men, fate unknown 8 



Men, total 343 



Women, single, surviving 136 



Women, single, deceased 16 



Women, single, total 152 



Women, been married, surviving 256 



Women, been married, deceased 22 



Women, married, total 278 



Women, total 430 



Both sexes, total 773 



Children born to men — known 575 



Children born to men — estimated 24+ 



Children born to men — total 599+ 



Children born to men — per capita 1 . 75 



Children born to women — known 548 



Children born to women — estimated 9 



Children born to women — total 557 



Children born to women— per capita 1.3 



1 was surprised to find that half of the men who had graduated in engineer- 

 ing and other scientific courses, who often seem while at college to scoff at 

 women and women's interests, eventually married a little more than the 

 other half of the men, those in arts and humanities. 



2 J. C. Phillips, Harv. Grad. Mag., Mar. 1926, Table II. I have held a per capita of 

 2.2 necessary for replacement. Elsewhere I named these deficiencies as 36 per cent vs. 

 23 per cent — a discrepancy due to decimal places used. 



