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and Pennsylvamia have a larger clientele 

 in the South Atlantic division than Vir- 

 ginia. 



In the South Central division Virginia 

 heads the list, followed by Columbia (111, 

 as against 72 in 1905), Yale (97-80), Cor- 

 nell (96-76), Harvard (95-80), Michigan 

 ■(82-64), Pennsylvania (62-44), Illincis 

 (59-47) and Princeton (48-72). Purdue 

 attracts 84 students from this division, and 

 M. I. T. 37. The New England colleges 

 for men, and Lehigh and California have 

 only a small following from this section 

 {Bowdoin and Williams have not a single 

 student from this division), while the girls' 

 colleges make a far better showing, both 

 Vassar and Wellesley drawing no less than 

 31 students each from the South Central 

 States. Columbia has made the largest 

 gain in this division, while Princeton's 

 clientele shows a falling off. The largest 

 representation from the individual states is 

 found at the following universities: Ala- 

 bama — Virginia, Columbia, Pennsylvania; 

 Arkansas — Missouri, Illinois, Virginia; 

 Kentucky — Purdue, Virginia, Michigan; 

 Louisiana — Yale, Cornell, Columbia; Mis- 

 sissippi — Virginia, Cornell, Columbia; 

 Oklahoraa,— Missouri, Michigan, Illinois; 

 Tennessee — Virginia, Columbia and Har- 

 vard, and Texas— CorweiZ, Columbia and 

 Yale. Kentucky continues to send by far 

 the largest delegations to the institutions 

 contained in the list, followed by Texas, 

 Tennessee and Alabama. 



In the North Central division the five 

 universities and the technological school of 

 that section, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 Ohio State, Missouri and Purdue, in the 

 order named, naturally have the largest 

 clientele. Of these six institutions, Michi- 

 gan draws the largest percentage of stu- 

 dents from outside of its own state, 53 per 

 cent, of its enrollment hailing from Michi- 

 gan, the corresponding figure for Purdue 

 being 76 per cent., for Wisconsin 81 per 



cent., for Missouri 83 per cent., and for 

 Ohio State 91 per cent. The clientele of 

 the five middle western institutions last 

 mentioned is, therefore, much more local in 

 character than that of any of the eastern 

 institutions comprised in the table, whereas 

 Michigan attracts a larger percentage of 

 students from outside of its own state than 

 do Pennsylvania, Columbia, Cornell, Le- 

 high, or M. I. T. Of the eastern universi- 

 ties Yale still has the largest clientele in 

 this section of the country, followed by 

 Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvamia 

 and Princeton, the last named institution 

 having been passed by Pennsylvania since 

 last year. The largest gains in individual 

 states (15 or more) during the past three 

 years have been made by Columbia in 

 Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin, by Cornell in 

 Ohio, by Harvard in Missouri, by Pennsyl- 

 vania in Iowa, and by Yale in Missouri and 

 Ohio. Columbia's representation in this 

 group of states has grown from 262 to 380 

 in three years, Cornell's from 381 to 445, 

 Pennsylvania's from 139 to 188, and Yale's 

 from 506 to 579, while Harvard's has re- 

 mained stationary at 526, and Princeton's 

 has dropped from 209 to 164. Of the 

 New England colleges for men, including 

 M. I. T., the last named institution has the 

 largest following in the North Central 

 division (142), with Dartmouth second 

 (130), Williams third (84) and Amherst 

 fourth (72), Smith, Vassar and Wellesley 

 all drawing a much larger body of students 

 from this section than the men's colleges, 

 in fact, all three of these girls' colleges 

 have a larger clientele from this division 

 than either Pennsylvamia or Princeton. 

 The representation of Amherst in these 

 states has grown from 43 to 72 in two years, 

 that of Dartmouth from 91 to 130, while 

 Williams shows a loss of two students. 

 Virginia and California have only a small 

 following in this division. Leaving the 

 state institution out of consideration in 



