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western, Harvard, Columbia and Yale, 

 each of whicli attracts over one hundred 

 students from this section, following; then 

 come Cornell, Illinois, Missouri, Wiscon- 

 sin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 

 Pennsylvania and Smith, the remaining 

 institutions all drawing less than fifty 

 students from this division. Michigan's 

 representation has grown from 134 to 200 

 since 1905; Harvard's from 126 to 144; 

 Columbia's from 111 to 124; Yale's from 

 78 to 115; Cornell's from 76 to 95; Illi- 

 nois's from 41 to 67; Pennsylvania's from 

 22 to 52; while Princeton's has dropped 

 from 41 to 37. Michigan leads in Arizona, 

 Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Oregon; 

 Harvard in California, Missouri in New 

 Mexico, Northwestern in Utah and Wash- 

 ington and Nebraska in Wyoming. Co- 

 lumbia is second in California and Oregon, 

 and Michigan in Washington. 



Taking only the six eastern institutions 

 mentioned at the beginning of the article 

 into consideration and counting ties in 

 fractions, we find that Columbia leads in 

 13f states. Harvard in 13^, Cornell in 9^, 

 Yale, in 9, Pennsylvania in 3J and Prince- 

 ton in none, as follows: Columbia— 'New 

 Jersey, New York, Georgia, North Caro- 

 lina, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas, 

 Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Arizona (^), 

 Montana (i), Nevada (J), New Mexico 

 il), Oregon, Washington; Harvard in 

 Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

 Rhode Island, Vermont, Kentucky, Okla- 

 homa, Tennessee, Iowa, North Dakota, 

 South Dakota, California, Nevada (-J), 

 Wyoming; Cornell in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, Maryland, Virginia, Arkansas, 

 Mississippi, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, 

 Montana (^), Utah; Yale in Connecticut, 

 Plorida, West Virginia, Louisiana, Illi- 

 nois, Minnesota, Missouri, Arizona (^), 

 Colorado, New Mexico (^) ; Pennsylvania 

 in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Idaho, Ne- 

 Tada (i). 



Cornell maintains its lead in the number 

 of students from insular and non-contigu- 

 ous territories, being followed by Illinois 

 and Pennsylvania. California leads in 

 Alaska and Hawaii, Illinois in the Philip- 

 pines, Cornell in Porto Rico and Pennsyl- 

 vania in the Canal Zone. 



The number of foreign students at 

 American institutions of learning is rap- 

 idly on the increase, and it is safe to say 

 that the day is not very far distant when 

 there will be more German students at 

 American universities than American stu- 

 dents at German universities. There were 

 enrolled in 1909, 794 foreigners at the six 

 eastern universities, as against 540 in 

 1905. Adding the foreign clientele of the . 

 other institutions in the table, we find that 

 34 American institutions attracted no less 

 than 1,467 foreigners during the academic 

 year 1908-9, this figure being, as all the 

 other comparisons have been, exclusive of 

 the summer session attendance. Columbia 

 attracted no less than 42 foreigners to its 

 current summer session, and no doubt sev- 

 eral other universities can make a similarly 

 good showing for the summer term. 

 Taking the representation of foreigners at 

 all of the institutions included in the table, 

 it is found that the largest delegations are 

 sent by the following countries: Canada 

 242, China 193, Japan 158, Mexico 81, 

 Great Britain and Ireland 71, Cuba 70, 

 India 60, Germany 56, Argentine Republic 

 52, Turkey 51 and Russia 50 ; China having 

 passed Japan since last year, England hav- 

 ing passed Cuba and India and Germany 

 the Argentine Republic. 460 of the 1,467 

 foreigners hail from North America, 458 

 from Asia, 313 from Europe, only 154 

 from South America, 64 from Australasia 

 and 18 from Africa. 



Owing to the large delegation of foreign- 

 ers in its dental school, Pennsylvania with 

 225 students from foreign countries con- 

 tinues to head the list, being followed by 



