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North Atlantic states, while compared with 

 last year Williams shows a loss, as does 

 Brown. 



In New York State the order for the col- 

 leges is Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, M. 

 I. T., Wesleyan, Brown and Lehigh. Of 

 the four New England colleges included in 

 both this and last year's tables, 30 per cent, 

 of the students of Amherst as against 36 

 per cent, last year and 43 per cent, in 

 1906, have their permanent home in Massa- 

 chusetts; 52 per cent, of Brown's student 

 body, as against 53 per cent, in 1907, come 

 from Rhode Island; 20 per cent, of Bart- 

 mouth's students, as against 21 per cent, 

 last year and 24 per cent, in 1906 come 

 from New Hampshire (26 per cent, as 

 against 27 per cent, and 32 per cent., re- 

 spectively, from New Hampshire and Ver- 

 mont), and 20 per cent, as against 20 per 

 cent, last year and 21 per cent, in 1906, of 

 the student enrollment of Williams hail 

 from Massachusetts. Lehigh's percentage 

 of students from the state of Pennsylvania 

 remains uniform at 58 per cent., as against 

 60 per cent, in 1906, while Boivdoin draws 

 77 per cent, of its student body from 

 Maine, M. I. T. 55 per cent, from Massa- 

 chusetts, and Wesleyan 35 per cent, from 

 Connecticut. It is thus seen that of these 

 institutions Williams and Dartmouth at- 

 tract the largest percentage of students 

 from outside their own state, followed by 

 Amherst, Wesleyan, Brown, M. I. T., 

 Lehigh, Purdue and Bowdoin. Dartmouth 

 attracts more students from Massachusetts 

 than from all of the other states in the 

 North Atlantic division combined. Am- 

 herst and Williams draw more from New 

 York than from Massachusetts, while 

 Princeton draws more from New York and 

 from- Pennsylvania than from New Jersey. 



Of the eastern universities, Pennsylvania 

 continues to have the largest percentage of 

 enrollment from its own state, namely 67 

 per cent., the same percentage as in 1906; 



of Columbia's student body 62 per cent, 

 come from New York State, as against 66 

 per cent, in 1906 ; Cornell's percentage of 

 New York students has dropped from 56 

 per cent, in 1906, to 54 per cent. ; of Har- 

 vard's students 52 per cent., as against 

 54 per cent, in 1906, are residents of Massa- 

 chusetts; of Yale's students 34 per cent., 

 as against 33 per cent, in 1906, have their 

 permanent residence in Connecticut, and, 

 finally, of Princeton's students only 21 per 

 cent., as against 20 per cent, in 1906, are 

 residents of the state of New Jersey. The 

 institutions in this group which exhibit a 

 gain in the percentage of students from 

 outside their own state during the past 

 year are Columbia, Cornell and Pennsyl- 

 vania (2 per cent, each) and Harvard (1 

 per cent.), Princeton and Yale having re- 

 mained uniform. 



Coming to the South Atlantic division 

 and taking into consideration only the six 

 eastern universities, we note that the order 

 is exactly the same as it was two years ago, 

 namely, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia, 

 Harvard, Princeton, Yale. The University 

 of Virginia naturally has the largest fol- 

 lowing in this section; Michigan continues 

 to be the only one of the western universi- 

 ties represented in the table to make a fair 

 showing in these states, while Lehigh is the 

 only one of the colleges with a good repre- 

 sentation from this division, its main 

 strength lying in the state of Maryland. 

 So far as the individual states are con- 

 cerned, Pennsylvania naturally leads in 

 Delaware, Cornell in the District of Co- 

 lumbia, Virginia in Florida, Columbia in 

 Georgia, North Carolina, and South Caro- 

 lina, Cornell in Maryland, and Virginia in 

 its own state (with Cornell second) and in 

 West Virginia. The only change to be 

 noted here since last year is the lead of 

 Cornell instead of Lehigh in Maryland. 

 Leaving the state of Virginia out of con- 

 sideration, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard 



