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institutions in 1910-11 had a foreign en- 

 rollment of 1,736 students. Taking the 

 representation of foreigners at all of the 

 thirty-seven institutions included in the 

 table, we find that the largest delegations 

 have been sent by the following countries: 

 Canada 344, China 330, Japan 197, Mex- 

 ico 193, Turkey (in Europe and Asia) 84, 

 India 78, Great Britain and Ireland 72, 

 Cuba 62, Germany 48, Russia 48 and 

 Australia 47. Omitting the foreigners of 

 the three institutions not included in the 

 table for 1908-9 and comparing the for- 

 eign enrollment for the year mentioned 

 with that of 1910-11, we secure the follow- 

 ing results, the first figure mentioned in 

 each case being that for 1911, the second 

 that for 1909: Canada 335-242, China 

 326-193, Japan 193-158, Mexico 92-81, 

 Turkey 82-51, India 71-60, Great Britain 

 and Ireland 71-71, Cuba 55-70, Germany 

 47-56, Russia 46-50 and Australia 47-43. 

 Owing to the fact that Pennsylvania did 

 not separate the students from South 

 America into the individual countries from 

 which they hailed, it is impossible to deter- 

 mine whether the Argentine Republic 

 should be included in the above list of 

 countries with a representation of 46 or 

 over. 548 of the 1,782 foreigners at the 

 thirty-seven institutions in the present 

 table hailed from North America, 132 from 

 South America, 351 from Europe, 662 

 from Asia, 37 from Africa and 52 from 

 Australasia. Omitting the three institu- 

 tions {Syracuse, Texas and Washington) 

 not included in the table for 1909 and 

 comparing the figures for the two years in 

 question, we find that between 1909 and 

 1911 the representation from North Amer- 

 ica increased from 460 to 531, that from 

 Europe from 313 to 340, that from Asia 

 from 458 to 651, that from Africa from 18 

 to 37, while that from South America de- 

 creased from 154 to 125, and that from 



Australasia from 64 to 52, the largest in- 

 crease thus having taken place in Asia. 



If we compare the foreign clientele of 

 twenty-one of the leading American uni- 

 versities,^ with that of the twenty-one 

 German universities, we find that America 

 is still far behind Germany in the matter 

 of attracting foreign students to its higher 

 institutions of learning. During the win- 

 ter semester of 1910-11, the twenty-one 

 German universities attracted altogether 

 no less than 4,672 students from foreign 

 countries, as against 1,576 foreigners at 

 the American universities mentioned. The 

 latter figure would no doubt be slightly 

 increased in case the University of Chi- 

 cago, for which geographical distribution 

 figures are unfortunately not available, 

 were substituted for one of the smaller 

 middle western universities. The German 

 universities draw 4,046 students from other 

 European countries, 398 from North and 

 South America, 203 from Asia, 20 from 

 Africa and 5 from Australasia, while the 

 American universities attract 478 students 

 from North American countries outside of 

 the United States, 112 from South Amer- 

 ica, 318 from Europe, 587 from Asia, 32 

 from Africa and 49 from Australasia, in 

 other words, the American universities 

 lead in every continent with the exception 

 of Europe. Almost half of the European 

 foreigners at German universities hail 

 from Russia, namely, 1,998 out of 4,046, this 

 country being followed by Austria-Hun- 

 gary with 760, Switzerland with 353, Bul- 

 garia with 159, Great Britain and Ireland 

 with 142, Rumania with 137, Greece with 

 83, Servia with 78, Luxemburg with 61 and 

 Turkey with 57, the remaining countries 



^ California, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Illi- 

 nois, Iowa, Johns Hopkins, Kansas, Michigan, 

 Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Northwestern, 

 Ohio State, Pennsylvania, Princeton, Stanford, 

 Syracuse, Washington, Wisconsin, Yale. 



