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against 53 per cent, in 1908; Cornell's per- 

 centage of New York students has dropped 

 from 56 per cent, in 1906 to 55 per cent. 

 in 1911; of Harvard's students 50 per 

 cent., as against 54 per cent, in 1906, are 

 residents of Massachusetts; of the students 

 of Johns Hopkins 41 per cent, are resi- 

 dents of Maryland, as against 43 per cent, 

 in 1909; of Yale's students 35 per cent., 

 as against 33 per cent, in 1906, have their 

 home in Connecticut; and of Princeton's 

 student body only 21 per cent., as against 

 20 per cent, in 1906, are residents of the 

 state of New Jersey. 



Coming to the South Atlantic division 

 and taking into consideration only the six 

 eastern universities mentioned in the be- 

 ginning of the article, we note that the 

 order is Pennsylvania, Cornell, Columbia, 

 Harvard, Princeton and Yale — Pennsyl- 

 vania and Cornell, and Princeton and 

 Yale having changed places since 1905. 

 Of the remaining eastern universities Vir- 

 ginia and Johns Hopkins naturally have 

 the largest following in this division, while 

 of the western institutions only Michigan 

 makes a good showing here. Of the col- 

 leges Lehigh has the best representation, 

 its main strength lying in Maryland. As 

 for the standing in individual states, Penn- 

 sylvania naturally leads in Delaware and 

 Johns Hopkins in Maryland ; Cornell leads 

 in the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania 

 in Florida and North Carolina, Columbia 

 in Georgia and South Carolina and Ohio 

 State in West Virginia. Princeton is sec- 

 ond in Delaware, Cornell in Maryland and 

 Johns Hopkins in Virginia. 



In the South Central division Texas nat- 

 urally heads the list, followed by Columbia 

 (133, as against 72 in 1905), Virginia 

 (127), Harvard (113-88), Michigan (97- 

 64), Cornell (91-76), Yale (90-80) and 

 Missouri. Purdue, Massachusetts Insti- 

 tute of Technology and Wellesley draw 



over 30 students each from this division. 

 The largest representation from individual 

 states is found at the following universi- 

 ties. Alabama: Columbia, Harvard and 

 Virginia; Arkansas: Missouri, Northwest- 

 ern; Kentucky: Michigan, Harvard and 

 Princeton and Yale; Louisiana : Virginia, 

 Cornell and Johns Hopkins; Mississippi: 

 Columbia, Virginia; Oklahoma: Missouri, 

 Kansas, Michigan; Tennessee: Columbia, 

 Cornell and Virginia; and Texas: Texas, 

 Virginia, Columbia and Harvard and Yale. 

 In the North Central division the order 

 for the institutions located in that region 

 is Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Illinois, 

 Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Mis- 

 souri, Indiana, Kansas, Iowa, Purdue, 

 Washington. All of these of course have 

 a larger patronage in this division than 

 any of the eastern universities, which come 

 in the order Harvard, Cornell, Yale, 

 Columbia, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Johns 

 Hopkins, Syracuse, Virginia. Since 1905 

 Cornell and Yale, and Pennsylvania and 

 Princeton have exchanged places. Colum- 

 bia's representation in this group of states 

 has grown from 262 to 514 in six years, 

 Cornell's from 381 to 556, Harvard's from 

 526 to 658, Pennsylvania's from 139 to 

 203, Yale's from 506 to 523, while Prince- 

 ton's has dropped from 209 to 190. 

 Leaving the state institutions out of con- 

 sideration in each case, Wisco7isin is seen 

 to have the largest following in Illinois, 

 being followed by Michigan, Cornell, Yale, 

 Harvard, Smith. Illinois leads in Indiana, 

 and is followed in that state by North- 

 western, Michigan, Columbia, Wisconsin, 

 Harvard, Cornell. In Iowa the order is 

 Northwestern, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ne- 

 braska, Michigan, Harvard; in Kansas: 

 Northwestern, Michigan, Illinois, Harvard, 

 Columbia, Yale; in Michigan : Northwest- 

 ern, Wisconsin, Columbia, Illinois, Har- 

 vard, Yale; in Minnesota: Northwestern, 



