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experienced gains except Pennsylvania. 

 Comparing the figures for 1910-11 with 

 those for 1904-5, we observe that the most 

 substantial gains have been made by 

 Pennsylvania (96), Columbia (92) and 

 Cornell (63), in the South Atlantic divi- 

 sion; by Columbia (61), in the South Cen- 

 tral division; by Columbia (252), Cornell 

 (175), Harvard (132) and Pennsylvania 

 (64) in the North Central division; by 

 Harvard (60) and Yale (52) in the West- 

 ern division; and by Pennsylvania (79), 

 Columbia (74), Cornell (61) and. Harvard 

 (60) in foreign countries. 



Of the western universities, Michigan 

 has by far the strongest hold on the North 

 Atlantic division, attracting 638 students 

 (as against 394 in 1905), to Wisconsin's 

 96, Ohio's 86, Illinois's 76 (36 in 1905), 

 Northwestern' s 64, Stanford's 49 and Cali- 

 fornia's 34. Of the universities Harvard 

 leads in all of the New England states 

 with the exception of Connecticut, where 

 Yale has the largest following, and of Ver- 

 mont, where Syracuse is in the lead. 

 Columbia naturally has a considerable 

 lead in New York and New Jersey, while 

 Pennsylvania of course leads in its own 

 state. In New York Columbia is followed 

 by Syracuse, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Mich- 

 igan, Princeton, Pennsylvania. In New 

 Jersey Columbia is followed by Pennsyl- 

 vania, Princeton, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, 

 Syracuse. In Pennsylvania the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania is followed by Cor- 

 nell, Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, 

 Michigan, Syracuse. 



Examining next the attendance of the 

 group of male colleges and technical 

 schools, we note that the order for the 

 North Atlantic division is Massachusetts 

 Institute of Technology, Dartmouth, Le- 

 high, Williams, Amherst, Wesleyan, Bow- 

 doin, Purdue. Wesleyan naturally leads 

 in Connecticut, Bowdoin in Maine, Massa- 



chusetts Institute of Technology in Massa- 

 chusetts, Dartmouth in New Hampshire 

 and Vermont and Lehigh in New Jersey 

 and Pennsylvania. Williams leads in New 

 York state and Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology in Rhode Island. 27 per cent, 

 of the students at Amherst, as against 43 

 per cent, in 1906, have their permanent 

 home in Massachusetts; Bowdoin attracts 

 74 per cent, of its student body from 

 Maine, as against 77 per cent, in 1908; 27 

 per cent, of Dartmouth's students, as 

 against 21 per cent, in 1906, hail from 

 New Hampshire and Vermont; the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technology attracts 

 56 per cent, of its student body from 

 Massachusetts, as against 55 per cent, in 

 1908; 20 per cent, of Wesley an' s students, 

 as against 35 per cent, in 1908, claim Con- 

 necticut as their permanent home, while 

 Williams enrolls 22 per cent, of its student 

 body from Massachusetts. The latter in- 

 stitution attracts almost twice as many 

 students from New York as from Massa- 

 chusetts; Amherst also attracts more stu- 

 dents from the Empire state than from 

 Massachusetts, and Dartmouth attracts 

 almost twice as many from Massachusetts 

 as from New Hampshire. 56 per cent, of 

 Lehigh's student body hail from Pennsyl- 

 vania, as against 60 per cent, in 1906, 

 while 76 per cent, of Purdue's students 

 claim Indiana as their permanent resi- 

 dence, this figure having remained sta- 

 tionary since 1908. 



Of the eastern universities, Syracuse 

 possesses the largest percentage of enroll- 

 ment from its own state, namely, 86 per 

 cent; it is followed by Pennsylvania with 

 an enrollment of 67 per cent, from its own 

 state, the same as in 1906. Columbia's 

 percentage of New York students has 

 dropped from 66 per cent, in 1906 to 62 

 per cent, in 1911 ; Virginia attracts 57 per 

 cent, of its clientele from its own state, as 



