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Harvard has increased it by one per cent., 

 Princeton has remained uniform, while the 

 outside clientele of Pennsylvania and 

 Yale has been lowered one per cent, since 

 1906. Of the other eastern universities in- 

 eluded in the table Virginia draws 56 per 

 cent, of its student body from its own 

 state as against 53 per cent, in 1908, while 

 Johns Hopkins attracts 43 per cent, of its 

 students from Maryland. 



Coming to the South Atlantic division 

 and taking into consideration only the six 

 eastern universities, we note that the order 

 has not changed for the last three years, 

 it being Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia, 

 Harvard, Princeton, Yale, although Johm 

 Hopkins and Virginia naturally have a 

 larger following in this section than any 

 of the northern institutions, and yet Co- 

 lumbia draws more students from North 

 Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia than 

 Virginia does. Chicago and Michigan are 

 the only western institutions to make a fair 

 showing in this group of states, while Le- 

 high, Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 

 ogy and Bryn Mawr are the only colleges 

 with a good representation from this di- 

 vision, tlieir main strength lying in Mary- 

 land. So far as the individual states are 

 concerned, Pennsylvania naturally leads 

 in Delaware and Johns Hopkins in Mary- 

 land; Cornell leads in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, Virginia in Florida, its own state 

 and West Virginia, and Columbia in 

 Georgia and North Carolina, tying with 

 Johns Hopkins in South Carolina. Johns 

 Hopkins is second in Virginia, followed by 

 Cornell and Columbia. Leaving the state 

 of Virginia out of consideration and omit- 

 ting Johns Hopkins on account of its large 

 Maryland clientele, we note that all of the 

 remaining six eastern universities with the 

 exception of Yale have a larger following 

 in the South Atlantic division than Vir- 

 ginia. 



Ill the South Central division Virginia 

 heads the list, followed by Harvard (91, as 

 against 80 in 1905), Columbia (90-72) 

 and Michigan (90-64), Cornell (88-76) 

 and Yale (88-80), Missouri, Illinois, Penn- 

 sylvania (56-44), Johns Hopkins, North- 

 ivestern and Princeton (52-72). Michigan 

 and Columbia have made the largest gains 

 in this division, while Princeton shows a 

 decrease since 1905. With the exception of 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 the New England colleges have only a 

 small following in this group of states. 

 Hmith, Vassar and Wellesley make a far 

 better showing in both divisions than Am- 

 herst, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Wesleyan or 

 Williams, as they do in the North Central 

 division. Indeed, the girls' colleges have 

 a much less local attendance than the New 

 England colleges for men, this being con- 

 clusively demonstrated by the following 

 figures : Prom the three divisions just men- 

 tioned Bmith draws altogether 380 stu- 

 dents, Wellesley 298 and Vassar 297, as 

 against 146 for Dartmouth, 96 for Will- 

 iams, 83 for Amherst, only 23 for Wes- 

 leyan and only 7 for Bowdoin. Bryn 

 Mawr attracts 138 of its students from the 

 same section and Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology 211. Smith draws 119 stu- 

 dents from the state of Illinois alone, more 

 than Amherst, Boivdoin and Wesleyan 

 combined do from the three divisions under 

 discussion. Barnard college, on the other 

 hand, has only 14 students from these three 

 divisions. The largest representation from 

 the individual states is found at the fol- 

 lowing universities: Alaha.ma— Virginia, 

 Cohimbia, Pennsylvania; Arkansas— Mw- 

 soun, Cornell and Virginia; Kentucky — 

 Virginia, Michigan, Harvard; Louisiana — 

 Yale, Cornell, Columbia; Mississippi— Yir- 

 ginia, Cornell, Illinois; OWsi\iova&— Kansas, 

 Missouri, NoHhwestern; Tennessee— "Fir- 

 ginia, Harvard, Yale; and Texas— Co- 

 lumbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins. 



