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the north Atlantic division has increased 

 from 15.07 per cent, to 17.65 per cent, dur- 

 ing the last four years. 



Taking the universities in the accom- 

 panying table by divisions, we find that 

 Harvard and Columbia have the largest 

 representations in the north Atlantic divi- 

 sion, Cornell and Pennsylvania, Yale and 

 Princeton following in the order named. 

 Michigan's representation has increased 

 from 394 to 490 in one year, the other west- 

 ern (the term as thus used includes the 

 north central and western divisions) uni- 

 versities — California, Illinois, Wisconsin — 

 attracting only a few students from this 

 section of the country. Harvard leads in 

 all of the New England states with the ex- 

 ception of Connecticut, where Yale of 

 course has the largest clientele. Columbia 

 and Cornell naturally have the largest rep- 

 resentation in New York state, Yale, Har- 

 vard, Princeton and Michigan following in 

 the order named, as they did last year. 

 Michigan's increase in this state — from 195 

 to 248— is noteworthy. In New Jersey 

 the order is also identical with that of last 

 year, namely, Columhia, Princeton, Penn- 

 sylvania, Cornell, Yale, Harvard. The 

 University of Pennsylvania naturally leads 

 in its own state, followed by Princeton, 

 Cornell, Yale, Harvard, Columhia. Ex- 

 amining the attendance at the colleges 

 from these states, we note that the order 

 for the entire division is Dartmouth, Le- 

 high, Amherst, Williams, Lafayette. Dart- 

 mouth leads the colleges in Maine and 

 Massachusetts— jETftrvarcZ being the only 

 one of the universities having a larger fol- 

 lowing in these states than the New Eng- 

 land college in question— as it does in New 

 Hampshire and Vermont, where its fol- 

 lowing is far in excess of that of any other 

 college or university represented in the 

 table. Only a- few students from Rhode 

 Island attend the colleges included in the 



table, the students from this state being 

 attracted in largest number to Brown and 

 Harvard. In Connecticut the order is 

 Amherst, Dartmouth, Williams, all of the 

 eastern universities except Princeton hav- 

 ing a larger representation in this state 

 than any of the New England colleges here 

 included. Lafayette and Lehigh have no 

 following to speak of in any of the New 

 England states, although they are well 

 represented in New Jersey and New York. 

 In the states just mentioned the order of 

 the New England colleges is Williams, Am- 

 herst, Dartm,onth, all three exceeding the 

 two Pennsylvania colleges in New York 

 and being surpassed by them in New 

 Jersey. Of the eastern universities Penn^ 

 sylvania has the largest percentage of en- 

 rolment from its own state, namely, 67 per 

 cent. ; of Columbia's student body 66 per 

 cent, come from New York state, of Cor- 

 nell's 56 per cent, hail from the same state, 

 of Harvard's 54 per cent, are residents of 

 Massachusetts, of Yale's 33 per cent, have 

 their permanent residence in Connecticut, 

 and finally, of Princeton's students only 

 20 per cent, are residents of the state of 

 New Jersey, Princeton and Yale are thus 

 the only two of the eastern universities 

 mentioned which attract more than half of 

 their students from outside the states in 

 which they are respectively located. Of 

 the three New England colleges here in- 

 cluded, 21 per cent, of the student enrol- 

 ment of Williams hail from Massachusetts, 

 24 per cent, of Dartmouth's student body 

 come from New Hampshire (32 per cent, 

 from New Hampshire and Vermont), and 

 43 per cent, of Amherst's students have 

 their permanent home in Massachusetts. 

 All of these colleges therefore attract the 

 larger percentage of their student body 

 from outside of the states in which they 

 are respectively located, while in the case 

 of Lafayette and Lehigh the reverse is true, 



