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York state by Cornell, Yale, Harvard, 

 Princeton, Pennsylvania, although Michi- 

 gan attracts more students from the Empire 

 state (391, as against 195 in 1905) than 

 Princeton or Pennsylvania. In New Jer- 

 sey Columbia- is followed by Pennsylvania, 

 Princeto-n, Cornell, Yale, Harvard. Penn- 

 sylvania naturally leads in its own state, 

 being followed by Cornell, Princeton, Yale, 

 Harvard, Columbia, this order being iden- 

 tical with that of 1908. 



Examining next the attendance of the 

 group of men's colleges and technological 

 schools, we note that the order for the en- 

 tire division is Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, Dartmouth, Lehigh, Amherst, 

 Williams, Bowdoin, Wesley an— Purdue 

 naturally bringing up the rear. All of the 

 institutions in this group show an increase 

 in their representation from the North At- 

 lantic states as compared with 1908. In 

 New York state the order for the colleges 

 remains unchanged, namely, Williams, 

 Amherst, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology, Wesleyan, Lehigh, 

 Bowdoin. Of the six New England insti- 

 tutions included in both the 1908 and 

 1909 tables, 29 per cent, of the students of 

 Amherst as against 43 per cent, in 1906 

 have their permanent home in Massachu- 

 setts; Bowdoin draws 73 per cent, of its 

 student body from Maine, as against 77 

 per cent, last year; 19 per cent, of Dart- 

 mouth's students, as against 24 per cent, 

 in 1906 come from New Hampshire (25 

 per cent, as against 21 per cent, in 1906 

 from New Hampshire and Vermont) ; 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 drew 57 per cent, of its student body from 

 Massachusetts, as against 55 per cent, last 

 year, this being the sole instance of an in- 

 crease in the percentage of patronage from 

 the home state ; 30 per cent, of Wesleyan 's 

 students, as against 35 per cent, last year, 

 claim Connecticut as their permanent 



home, while WUliayns continues to enroll 

 20 per cent, of its student body from 

 Massachusetts. Williams draws more than 

 twice as many students from New York 

 as from IMassachusetts, Amherst also at- 

 tracts more from the Empire state than 

 from Massachusetts, and Dartmouth at- 

 tracts more than twice as many from 

 Massachusetts as from New Hampshire. 

 60 per cent, of Lehigh 's student body hails 

 from Pennsylvania, as against 58 per cent, 

 in 1908 and 1907 and 60 per cent, in 1906, 

 while 76 per cent, of Purdue's students 

 claim Indiana as their permanent resi- 

 dence, this figure having remained station- 

 ary since 1908. It is thus seen that of the 

 institutions included in this group Dart- 

 mouth attracts the largest percentage of ' 

 students from outside of its own state, fol- 

 lowed by Williatns, Amherst, Wesleyan, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Lehigh, Purdue and Bowdoin. 



Of the eastern universities, Pennsylvania 

 still possesses the largest percentage of en- 

 rolment from its own state, namely, 68 

 per cent., as against 67 per cent, in 1906; 

 of Columbia's student body 63 per cent, 

 come from New York state, as against 66 

 per cent, in 1906 and only 45 per cent, in 

 the 1909 summer session; Cornell's per- 

 centage of New York students has dropped 

 from 56 per cent, in 1906 to 53 per cent, in 

 1909 ; of Harvard's students 53 per cent., 

 as against 54 per cent, in 1906, are resi- 

 dents of Massachusetts; of Yale's students 

 34 per cent., as against 33 per cent, in 

 1906, have their permanent residence in 

 Connecticut, and of Princeton's students 

 only 20 per cent., the same as in 1906, are 

 residents of the state of New Jersey. In 

 no individual case do these figures differ 

 more than one per cent, as compared with 

 last year, while compared with 1906 Co- 

 lumbia and Cornell have each increased 

 their outside patronage by three per cent., 



