October 1, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



433 



In the North Central division the order 

 for the institutions located in that region 

 is Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michi- 

 gan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, 

 Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana-, Pur- 

 due. All of these, naturally, have a 

 larger patronage in this division than 

 any of the eastern universities, which 

 come in the order Yale, Cornell, Harvard, 

 Columbia, Pennsijlvania, Princeton, Johns 

 Hopkins, Virginia— Cornell and Harvard 

 having exchanged places since last year. 

 At the prominent universities of the mid- 

 dle west, the percentage of attendance 

 from outside of the state in which the in- 

 stitution is located is, with the exception of 

 Chicago, Michigan and Northwestern, much 

 lower than it is in the case of the eastern 

 institutions. The figures for percentage 

 of enrolment from the home state are as 

 follows: Michigan 54 per cent.. Northwest- 

 ern 56 per cent., Wisconsin 79 per cent., 

 Illinois 80 per cent., Missouri 83 per cent., 

 Kansas and Ohio State 90 per cent, each, 

 Iowa 91 per cent., Minnesota 93 per cent., 

 Indiana 94 per cent, and Nebraska 95 per 

 cent. Of the two large universities on the 

 Pacific coast Stanford is much less local in 

 its student patronage than the University 

 of California, the figures being 79 per 

 cent, and 93 per cent., respectively. The 

 largest gains (30 or more) in individual 

 states since 1905 have been made in Illi- 

 nois by Columbia and in Ohio by Cornell 

 and Yale. Columbia's representation in 

 this group of states has grown from 262 to 

 398 in four years, Coi-nell's from 381 to 

 521, Yale's from 506 to 595, Pennsylvania's 

 from 139 to 186, while Harvard's has 

 dropped from 526 to 502, and Princeton's 

 from 209 to 162. Of the New England 

 colleges for men, Dartmouth (127) has 

 outgrown Massachusetts Instittite of Tech- 

 nology (121) since last year in the size 

 of its clientele from this division, Will- 



iams being third (90) and Amherst fourth 

 (64), while the order for the girls' col- 

 leges is Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn 

 Mawr, Mt. Holyoke. The first three of the 

 girls' colleges mentioned have a much 

 larger clientele from this division than 

 either Pennsylvania or Princeton. The 

 repi-esentation of Amherst in these states 

 has grown from 43 to 64 in three years, 

 that of Dartmouth from 91 to 127 and that 

 of Williams from 86 to 90. Leaving the 

 state institution or institutions out of con- 

 sideration in each case, Wisconsin ls seen 

 to have the largest following in Illinois, 

 having passed Michigan since last year, 

 Yale, Cornell, Smith and Harvard fol- 

 lowing. Michigan retains its lead in 

 Indiana, and is followed in that state by 

 Northwestern, Illinois, Columbia, Harvard, 

 Cornell and Wisconsin. In Iowa the 

 order is Northwestern, "Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Michigan, Nebraska, Harvard; in Kansas 

 —Northivestern, Missouri, Michigan, Illi- 

 nois, Nebraska, Columbia; in Michigan — 

 Northwestern, Illinois, Cornell, Columbia 

 and Yale, Vassar; in Minnesota— i\''ori/(- 

 westem, Yale, Smith, Wisconsin, Columbia 

 and Michigan; in Missouri— Kansas, North- 

 western, Illinois, Yale, Harvard and 

 Michigan; in Nebraska — Northivestern,. 

 Illinois, Michigan, Columbia, Yale and 

 Wellesley; in North DakoXai— Minnesota, 

 Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Har- 

 vard and Michigan; in Ohio — Michigan, 

 Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Purdue, Co- 

 lumbia; in South Dakota — Northwestern, 

 Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, 

 loxca; in 'V^iseonsin— Northwestern, Illi- 

 nois, Minnesota, Michigan, Cornell, Vassar 

 —Northwestern being mentioned first in 

 .seven of the 12 states included in this di- 

 vision. 



In the western division (leaving Cali- 

 fornia and Stanford out of consideration) 

 Michigan is still in the lead, with North- 



