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ton. The remaining institutions attract 

 only a few students from this section of 

 the country, with the exception of Dart- 

 mouth, which continues to draw a fair 

 delegation from Colorado. Michigmi has 

 grown from 134 to 155 in two years; Har- 

 vard has remained stationary at 126; Co- 

 lumbia has dropped from 111 to 105 ; Yale 

 has grown from 78 to 99 ; Cornell from 76 

 to 86 ; Illinois from 41 to 53 ; Pennsylvania 

 from 22 to 40 ; while Princeton has dropped 

 from 41 to 36. Michigan leads in Arizona, 

 Idaho, New Mexico and Wyoming, although 

 the representation from each of these states 

 is quite small; in California (leaving the 

 state university out of consideration) Har- 

 vard continues to lead, with Yale, Colum- 

 iia and Michigan following; in Colorado 

 the order is Michigan, Yale, Harvard, Co- 

 lumbia; in Montana, Michigan, Columbia, 

 Wisconsin; California leads in Nevada; in 

 Oregon the order is California, Cornell, 

 Harvard and Yale; in JJtah— Columbia, 

 Michigan, Pennsylvania; and in Washing- 

 ton— ffart^ard, California, Illinois and 

 Michigan. Of the states in the Western 

 division, Colorado and California continue 

 to send by far the largest delegations to the 

 eastern institutions in the list. California 

 sent 164 students to the institutions outside 

 of its own state represented in the tables 

 of 1906 and 1907 in the former year, as 

 against 191 in the latter, showing that the 

 San Francisco disaster did not seriously 

 affect the attendance of California students 

 at institutions in the east and middle west. 

 It should be pointed out again in this con- 

 nection that the figures for most of the 

 state universities, and this applies particu- 

 larly to the University of California, are 

 not absolutely reliable, inasmuch as stu- 

 dents frequently claim the state in which 

 the university is located as their permanent 

 residence (although in fact it is only a 

 temporary one), in order to-be exempt 



from tuition fees. In addition a tendency 

 exists at all of the institutions to give the 

 place in which the college or university is 

 located as the home address. 



Cornell continues to lead in the number 

 of students from the insular possessions, 

 followed by Illinois. Alaska, which had a 

 solitary representative in Princeton in 1905 

 and none whatever in 1906, has three rep- 

 resentatives in California this year. Har- 

 vard leads in the Hawaiian Islands, Illinois 

 in the Philippine Islands, and Cornell and 

 Michigan in Porto Rico. There are less 

 students from the Hawaiian Islands at the 

 institutions represented in both tables this 

 year than there were last. The delegation 

 from the Philippine Islands has increased 

 25 per cent., while that from Porto Rico 

 has remained stationary. 



The total number of students from for- 

 eign countries in attendance at the institu- 

 tions represented in the accompanying table 

 as well as in that of last year has grown 

 from 792 to 897, a growth of no less than 

 13 per cent., to which the various conti- 

 nents contributed as follows: North Amer- 

 ica's representation has grown from 286 to 

 305; South America's from 62 to 87; 

 Europe's has dropped from 211 to 190; 

 Africa's from 15 to 12; Australasia's from 

 47 to 44, while Asia shows the largest gain 

 — one from 171 to 256. Pennsylvania has 

 the largest foreign clientele this year, fol- 

 lowed by Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, each 

 of which attracts more than one hundred 

 foreigners. Of the western institutions, 

 Michigan continues to have the largest for- 

 eign clientele, followed by California, Ohio, 

 Wisconsin, Illinois. Virginia and the New 

 England colleges attract only a few stu- 

 dents resident in foreign countries, while 

 Lehigh continues to have a fair foreign 

 representation. Examining the foreign 

 delegations at the different institutions by 

 continents, we note that the order in North 



