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Yale; in the South Central States the ex- 

 ceptions are Harvard and Princeton; in 

 the North Central division all of them with 

 the exception of Princeton show gains, 

 these being quite substantial in the case of 

 Columbia and Cornell; in the far western 

 states Pennsylvania and Princeton are the 

 only institutions that show a loss, while all 

 of them have made gains in foreign coun- 

 tries. 



Comparing these figures with those of 

 three years ago (1905), we observe that the 

 most substantial gains have been made by 

 Columbia (118), Yale (73) and Cornell 

 (64) in the North Central division: by Co- 

 lumbia (39) in the South Central division, 

 by Yale (37) in the Western division, by 

 Pennsylvania (33), Harvard (32) and Co- 

 lumbia (29) in the South Atlantic division, 

 and hj Pennsylvania (90), Columbia (56), 

 Harvard (48), and Cornell (43) in foreign 

 countries. It may be of interest to note in 

 passing that at Columbia the number of 

 students in attendance from the North At- 

 lantic division on the corporation only 

 (not including Barnard College, Teachers 

 College and the College of Pharmacy), ex- 

 clusive of the summer session, has de- 

 creased by 6.80 per cent, since 1901-2. 



Taking the universities in the accom- 

 panying table by divisions, we find that 

 Harvard and Columbia continue to have 

 the largest representation in the North At- 

 lantic division, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Yale 

 and Princeton following in the order 

 named. Michigan's representation has in- 

 creased from 394 to 560 in three years, 

 while the other western universities — Cali- 

 fornia, Illinois, Missouri, Ohio State and 

 Wisconsin— and the University of Virginia, 

 attracted comparatively few students from 

 this section of the country, Ohio State 

 heading the latter list with 77 students, as 

 against 64 last year. Every one of these 

 western institutions, however, with the ex- 

 ception of California, shows gains in at- 



tendance in this division over last year. 

 Harvard, as usual, leads in all of the New 

 England States, with the natural exception 

 of Connecticut, where Yale has the largest 

 following. Columbia and Cornell, as we 

 should expect, have the largest representa- 

 tion in New York State, Yale, Harvard, 

 Michigan and Princeton following in the 

 order named, Michigan, which has regis- 

 tered an increase in this state from 195 to 

 326 in three years, having passed Princeton 

 since last year. In New Jersey the order 

 is Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Cor- 

 nell, Yale and Harvard— Pennsylva/nia 

 having passed Princeton in this state since 

 last year. The University of Pennsylvania 

 naturally leads in its own state, followed 

 by Cornell, Princeton, Yale, Harvard and 

 Columbia — Princeton having been passed 

 by Cornell since last year. 



Examining the attendance of the men's 

 colleges and technological schools from 

 these states, we note that the order for the 

 entire division is M. I. T., Dartmouth, 

 Brown, Lehigh, Amherst, Williams, Bow- 

 doin, Wesley an— Purdue naturally bring- 

 ing up the rear. Of course Bowdoin leads 

 in Maine and M. I. T. in Massachusetts, 

 with Dartmouth second in both instances, 

 while the latter institution, as would be 

 expected, has the largest number of stu- 

 dents from New Hampshire and Vermont. 

 Brown and Harvard are the only institu- 

 tions that attract students from Rhode 

 Island in any considerable number. In 

 Connecticut Wesleyan naturally leads, fol- 

 lowed by M. I. T., Brown, Dartmouth and 

 Williams, and AmheHt, all of the eastern 

 universities, except Princeton, having a 

 larger representation in this state than any 

 of the New England colleges for men out- 

 side of Wesleyan included in the table. 

 Compared with 1906, all of the colleges in- 

 cluded in both tables {Amherst, Dart- 

 m,outh, Lehigh and Williams) show an in- 

 crease in their representation from the 



