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crease. Comparing this year's figures with 

 those of two years ago, we observe that the 

 most substantial gains have been made by 

 Columbia (67), Pennsylvania (37) and 

 Yale (71) in the North Central division, 

 by Tale (21) in the Western division, and 

 by Columbia (29), Cornell (37), Harvard 

 (39) and Pennsylvania (44) in foreign 

 countries. At Columbia the attendance 

 from outside of the North Atlantic states 

 has increased from 15.07 per cent, to 19.15 

 per cent, during the last five years. 



Taking the universities in the accom- 

 panying table by divisions, we find that 

 Harvard and Columbia have the largest 

 representation in the North Atlantic divi- 

 sion, Pennsylvania, Cornell, Yale and 

 Princeton following in the order named. 

 Michigan's representation has increased 

 from 394 to 505 in two years, while the 

 other western universities— Cait/orm'a, Illi- 

 nois, Ohio and Wisconsin — and the Univer- 

 sity of Virginia attract only a few students 

 from this section of the country. Harvard 

 continvies to lead in all of the New England 

 states, with the exception of Connecticut, 

 where Yale naturally has the largest fol- 

 lowing. Columbia and Cornell, as we 

 should expect, have the largest representa- 

 tion in New York state, Yale, Harvard, 

 Princeton and Michigan following in the 

 order named, as they have during the past 

 two years. Michigan's increase in this 

 state— from 195 to 277 in two years— is 

 noteworthy. In New Jersey there has also 

 been novchange during the past two years, 

 the order still being Columbia, Princeton, 

 Pennsylvania, Cornell, Yale, Harvard. The 

 University of Pennsylvania naturally leads 

 in its own state, followed by Princeton, 

 Cornell, Yale, Harvard and Columbia, as 

 heretofore. 



Examining the attendance of the colleges 

 from these states, we note that the order for 

 Ihe entire division is Dartmouth, Brown, 



Lehigh, Amherst, Williams. Dartmouth 

 continues to lead the colleges in Maine and 

 Massachusetts— -ffarvarcZ being the only one 

 of the universities having a larger follow- 

 ing in these states than the New England 

 college in question— as it does in New 

 Hampshire and Vermont. Brown and 

 Harvard are the only institutions that at- 

 tract students from Rhode Island in any 

 considerable number. In Connecticut the 

 order is Broivn, Williams, Dartmouth, Am- 

 herst, all of the eastern universities, except 

 Princeton, having a larger representation 

 in this state than any of the New England 

 colleges included in the table. Dartmouth, 

 Lehigh and Williams show an increase in 

 their representation from the North At- 

 lantic states, while Amherst shows a slight 

 decrease. In New York the order for the 

 colleges is Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, 

 Brown, Lehigh, and in New Jersey Lehigh, 

 Williams, Brown, Amherst, Dartmouth. 

 Of the four New England colleges here in- 

 cluded, 36 per cent, of the students of Am- 

 herst, as against 43 per cent, last year, 

 have their permanent home in Massachu- 

 setts; 21 per cent, of Dartmouth's student 

 body, as against 24 per cent., come from 

 New Hampshire (27 per cent, as against 

 32 per cent, from New Hampshire and Ver- 

 mont), and 20 per cent, as against 21 per 

 cent., of the student enrolment of Williams 

 hail from Massachusetts. In other Avords, 

 each of these three New England colleges 

 shows an increase in the proportion of stu- 

 dents coming from without the borders of 

 its own state. Lehigh shows a decrease 

 from 60 per cent, to 58 per cent, in the 

 number of students hailing from Pennsyl- 

 vania, while Broivn draws 53 per cent, of 

 its student body from Rhode Island. The 

 table furthermore shows that Dartmouth 

 attracts more students from Massachusetts 

 than from all of the other states in the 

 North Atlantic division combined, Wil- 



