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the percentage of Pennsylvania residents 

 being 67 per cent, in the case of Lafayette 

 and 60 per cent, in the case of Lehigh. 

 It is also interesting to observe that Bart- 

 mouth draws more students from Massa- 

 chusetts than it does from New Hampshire, 

 that Pnnceton draws more students from 

 Pennsylvania than from New Jersey, and 

 that Williams attracts more from New 

 York than from Massachusetts. 



Coming next to the south Atlantic divi- 

 sion, we see that the students from this 

 section are attracted to the six eastern uni- 

 versities in the same order as last year, 

 namely, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Cohimhia, 

 Harvard, Yale, Princeton. Michigan is 

 the only one of the three western univer- 

 sities here included that makes any show- 

 ing in this division, being exceeded by all 

 of the eastern universities, while of the col- 

 leges Lehigh is the only one that is at all 

 well represented, the south Atlantic fol- 

 lowing of this institution being in excess 

 even of that of Princeton. As far as the 

 individual states are concerned, Pennsyl- 

 vania leads in Delaware, Cornell in the 

 District of Columbia and in Virginia, Penn- 

 sylvania and Yale in Florida, Columbia in 

 Georgia, North Carolina and South Caro- 

 lina, Lehigh in Maryland, and Pennsyl- 

 vania in A¥est Virginia. 



In the south central division Harvard 

 heads the list (92 as against 80 last year), 

 with Yale (89-80), Cornell (80-76), Co- 

 lumbia (75-72), Pennsylvania (64-44), 

 Michigan (63-64), Princeton (63-72), 

 Illinois (47-47) and Lehigh following in 

 the order given, the representation from 

 this section of the other institutions in the 

 list being insignificant. The largest repre- 

 sentation in the individual states is found 

 at the following universities: Alabama— 

 Cornell, Columbia, Pennsylvania; Arkan- 

 sas— S'afvarc^; Indian Territory— Illinois; 

 Keiatncky— Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania; 



homsiana,— Harvard; Mississippi— Coktm- 

 hia and Cornell; Oklahoma — Michigan; 

 Tennessee — Yale, Cornell, Columbia; and 

 Texas — Yale, Cornell, Columbia and Penn- 

 sylvania. Kentucky sends by far the 

 largest delegation to the institutions in- 

 cluded in the list. 



In the north central division the three 

 universities of that section, Michigan, 

 Illinois and ^Yisco'nsin, naturally head the 

 list, ranking in the order named. Of the 

 three institutions Michigan draws the 

 largest percentage of students from out- 

 side of its own state, 54 per cent, of its 

 enrolment hailing from Michigan, the 

 corresponding figures for IllinO'is and Wis- 

 consin being 83 per cent, and 84 per cent., 

 respectively. It is thus seen that the 

 clientele of the Universities of Illinois and 

 Wisconsin is much more local in character 

 than that of any of the eastern colleges or 

 universities included in the table, whereas 

 Michigan attracts a larger percentage of 

 students from outside its own state than do 

 Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell or 

 Lafayette and Lehigh, Harvard's percent- 

 age being just equal to that of the Univer- 

 sity of Michigan. Of the eastern univer- 

 sities Yale has the largest clientele in this 

 section of the country, followed by Har- 

 vard, Cornell, Columbia, Princeton and 

 Pennsylvania, in the order named, Yale 

 and Harvard having exchanged rank since 

 last year. Comparing the figures for the 

 past academic year with those for 1904-05, 

 we see that Yale's representation has in- 

 creased from 506 to 536, the greatest gain 

 (119-135) having been made in the state 

 of Ohio ; Harvard has dropped from 526 to 

 487, the largest loss (160-137) having been 

 experienced in the same state; Cornell's 

 representation in this division has remained 

 stationary, 381-380, Columbia's has grown 

 from 262 to 287, Princeton has 219 this 

 year as against 209 in 1904^05, while Penn- 



