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third. California leads in the Hawaiian 

 Islands, and Cornell in the Philippines and 

 in Puerto Eico. There is quite an increase 

 in the total number of students from the 

 Philippine Islands and Puerto Rico over 

 last year at the universities included in 

 both this and last year's tables. Alaska 

 is not represented this year at any of the 

 institutions in the list. 



As was pointed out in the introductory 

 paragraph, the gain during the past year 

 in the number of students from foreign 

 countries has been quite marked, the in- 

 crease for the six eastern universities in- 

 cluded being one from 540 to 627, a growth 

 of no less than 16 per cent., to which the 

 various continents contributed as follows: 

 North America's representation has grown 

 from 212 to 216; South America's from 

 37 to 50; Europe's from 116 to 181; Asia's 

 from 107 to 129; Africa's remained sta- 

 tionary at 11, and Australasia's h,as 

 dropped from 57 to 40, this loss being 

 attributable chiefly to the decrease of 15 

 in the figures for the University of Penn- 

 sylvania, which attracts the largest number 

 of Australasians.^ A glance at the accom- 

 panying table will show that Columbia has 

 the largest foreign clientele, having ex- 

 changed places with the University of 

 Pennsylvania, which this year is tied with 

 Cornell for second place. Harvard occupy- 

 ing fourth, as it did last year. The at- 

 tendance from foreign countries at Colum- 

 hia has grown from 117 to 150 during the 

 past year, that of Cornell from 100 to 130, 

 that of Pennsylvania from 126 to 130, that 

 of Harvard from 94 to 112, that of Tale 

 from 83 to 85, that of Michigan from 38 

 to 47, and that of Princeton has remained 

 stationary at 20. Of the western universi- 

 ties Michigan attracts the largest number 

 of students resident in foreign countries, 



^ A portion of the information contained in this 

 paragraph was published in the New York Evening 

 Post of July 21, 1906. 



followed by California, Wisconsin and Illi- 

 nois in the order named. It will also be 

 noted that the attendance of foreigners is 

 almost exclusively confined to the larger 

 universities, although Lehigh during 1905- 

 06 attracted 22, as against 7 for Amherst, 

 and 3 each for Dartmouth, Lafayette and 

 Williams. Lehigh's excellent showing in 

 this direction is explained by its reputation 

 as a technological school, this particular 

 field being the one that draws the majority 

 of foreign students, although the foreign 

 clientele in the non-professional graduate 

 faculties of the larger universities is rap- 

 idly on the increase. It is safe to predict 

 that the growth in the number of foreign- 

 ers attending our higher institutions of 

 learning will be as uninterrupted in the 

 immediate future as it has been during the 

 past few years. Examining the represen- 

 tation of the different institutions by con- 

 tinents, we note that the order in North 

 America is Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, 

 Pennsylvania, Yale, Michigan; in South 

 America, Cornell, Columbia and Pennsyl- 

 vania, Wisconsin — Cornell being the only 

 institution in the list that makes a respect- 

 able showing; in Europe, Columbia, Penn- 

 sylvania, Harvard, Cornell, Yale, Michigan; 

 in Asia, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, Cornell, 

 California, Pennsylvania; in Africa Co- 

 lumbia leads, while in Australasia the order 

 is Pennsylvania, Cornell, California, Har- 

 vard. The two most interesting phenomena 

 to be observed here are the rapidly in- 

 creasing delegations from Europe on one 

 hand, and on the other the comparatively 

 meager showing made by South America. 

 It certainly seems strange that the South 

 American republics are not better repre- 

 sented by students at the universities of the 

 United States. As for individual coun- 

 tries, Harvard leads in Canada, followed 

 by Columbia, Cornell and Yale; Pennsyl- 

 vania has the best Central American repre- 

 sentation ; Cornell attracts the largest num- 



