July 26, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



101 



Hams draws more from New York than 

 from Massachusetts, while Princeton draws 

 more from Pennsylvania and more from 

 New York than from New Jersey. 



Of the eastern universities, Pennsylvania 

 continues to have the largest percentage of 

 enrolment from its own state, namely, 69 

 per cent, as against 67 per cent, last year; 

 of Columbia's student body 64 per cent, 

 come from New York state, as against 66 

 per cent. ; Cornell's percentage of New York 

 students continues at 56 per cent. ; of 

 Harvard's students 53 per cent., as against 

 54 per cent., are residents of Massachu- 

 setts; of Yale's students 34 per cent., as 

 against 33 per cent., have their permanent 

 residence in Connecticut, and finally, of 

 Princeton's students only 21 per cent., as 

 against 20 per cent., are residents of the 

 state of New Jersey. The only institutions 

 of this group which exhibit a gain in the 

 percentage of students from outside their 

 own state are therefore Columbia (2 per 

 cent.) and Harvard (1 per cent.). 



Coming to the South Atlantic division 

 and taking into consideration only the six 

 eastern universities, we note that Har- 

 vard's registration from this section now 

 exceeds that of Columbia, the order this 

 year being Cornell, Pennsylvania, Harvard, 

 Columbia, Princeton, Yale. The Univer- 

 sity of Vii-giniu naturally has the largest 

 following in this section; Michigan is the 

 only one of the western universities repre- 

 sented in the table to make a fair showing 

 in these states, while Lehigh is the only one 

 of the colleges with a good representation 

 from this division, its main strength Ij^ing 

 in Maryland and the District of Columbia. 

 Lehigh, in fact, has a larger following in 

 this section than either Princeton, Yale or 

 Michigan. So far as the individual states 

 are concerned, Pennsylvania leads in Dela- 

 ware, Cornell in the District of Columbia, 

 Virginia in Florida, Columbia in Georgia, 



North Carolina and South Carolina (with 

 Virginia), Lehigh in Maryland, and Vir- 

 ginia in its own state (with Cornell second) 

 and in West Virginia. Leaving the state 

 of Virginia out of consideration, both Cor- 

 nell and Pennsylvania have a larger clien- 

 tele in the South Atlantic division than 

 Virginia. 



In the South Central division Virginia 

 heads the list, followed by Harvard (102, 

 as against 80 two years ago), Cornell (93- 

 76), Columbia (83-72), Yale (79-80), 

 Michigan (68-64), Pennsylvania (61^4), 

 Princeton (55-72) and Illinois (48^7). 

 Wisconsin's representation from this sec- 

 tion has increased from 8 to 22 in one year, 

 while Lehigh's has dropped from 15 to 8. 

 The New England colleges and California 

 have only a small following in the states 

 in question. The above figures show that 

 Princeton's clientele in this division has 

 fallen off during the past two years, while 

 Yale's has remained stationary. The larg- 

 est representation in the individual states 

 is found at the following imiversities : 

 Alabama — Virginia, Columbia, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Ark&ns.B.s— Virginia, Illinois; In- 

 dian Territor J— Illinois; Kentucky— Yir- 

 ginia. Harvard, Yale; Louisiana — Harvard 

 and Virginia; Mississippi — Virginia, Cor- 

 nell, Columbia; O^ahama,— Michigan, Har- 

 vard; Tennessee— yir^rmiffl, Yale, Harvard; 

 and T&^&s— Cornell, Yale, Harvard and 

 Pennsylvania. Kentucky continues to send 

 by far the largest delegations to the institu- 

 tions mentioned in the list, followed by 

 Texas, Tennessee and Alabama. 



In the North Central division the four 

 universities of that section, Illinois, Wis- 

 consin, Michigan and Ohio, naturally have 

 the largest clientele, standing in the order 

 named; Michigan was at the head of the 

 list last year. Of these four institutions 

 Michigan draws the largest percentage of 

 students from oiitside of its own state, 55 . 



