October 6, 1905.] 



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Arkansas Columbia leads, with Harvard 

 second ; Harvard and Yale have the largest 

 number from Louisiana; Harvard leads in 

 Kentucky, Yale in Tennessee and Cornell 

 in Texas, with Princeton second in each. 

 The largest Oklahoma delegation is found 

 at Michigan. The large number of stu- 

 dents from the state of Kentucky is worthy 

 of mention. 



The universities of the middle west are 

 naturally far in the lead in the north cen- 

 tral division, Illinois ranking first, although 

 Michigan is not far behind. Of the east- 

 ern universities Harvard stands first in this 

 division, with Yale second, Cornell third 

 and Columbia fourth. The University of 

 Indiana has few followers outside of its 

 own state, whereas the Universities of 

 Illinois and Michigan are well represented 

 in all of the states of the division. Of the 

 ■eastern universities Yale leads in Illinois, 

 with Harvard second, Cornell also having 

 over one hundred students from this state, 

 many of whom hail from the city of Chi- 

 cago, which, like the city of "Washington, 

 is a Cornell stronghold. In Indiana and 

 Iowa Harvard leads the eastern univer- 

 sities, with Yale second, Columbia being 

 third in the former and Cornell in the 

 latter state. In Kansas, Michigan, Min- 

 nesota and Missouri Yale leads Harvard, 

 •Columbia being third in Kansas, tying 

 with Cornell for third place in Michigan 

 and Missouri, and with Harvard for sec- 

 ond i^lace in Minnesota. Harvard has the 

 largest folloAving of the eastern universities 

 in Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio and Wis- 

 consin, Columbia leading in South Dakota. 

 All of the eastern universities attract more 

 students from Ohio than Illinois or In- 

 diana, although Michigan has by far the 

 largest student body from that state. Har- 

 vard, Cornell and Yale also being well rep- 

 resented. 



In the western division Michigan leads, 

 ■with Harvard second and Columbia third, 



all of these institutions drawing over one 

 hundred students from this section, many 

 of whom are enrolled in the scientific 

 schools, at least as far as Michigan and 

 Columbia are concerned. Columbia leads 

 in Arizona, Colorado (with Michigan) and 

 Utah, Harvard in California and Oregon, 

 Michigan in Idaho, Montana, Ncav Mexico, 

 Washington and Wyoming. California 

 and Colorado send by far the largest dele- 

 gations to the universities included in the 

 table, the representation of Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Nevada and Wyoming at the east- 

 ern universities being insignificant. 



The insular territories are just beginning 

 to send students to the American univer- 

 sities and their representation will no doubt 

 increase rapidly in the immediate future. 

 Cornell leads all the other universities 

 enumerated in the number of students 

 from these territories. There is only one 

 student from Alaska at any of the institu- 

 tions in the list, namely, at Princeton. Yale 

 leads in the Hawaiian Islands, Cornell in 

 the Philippine Islands, and Michigan in 

 Puerto Rico. 



As for the representation from foreign 

 countries, the University of Pennsylvania 

 is in the lead, with Columbia second and 

 Cornell third, the great majority of Penn- 

 sylvania 's foreign students being registered 

 in the dental school of that institution. It 

 is worthy of note that there are over six 

 hundred students from foreign countries 

 enrolled at the nine universities included 

 in the table, which is, indeed, a remarkable 

 showing, and it is safe to predict that this 

 number will show a constant increase in the 

 coming years. No less than 125 of these 

 foreign students hail from Europe. In 

 North America Columbia leads, with Har- 

 vard second and Pennsylvania third; Cor- 

 nell has the largest following in South 

 America, with Pennsylvania second and 

 Columbia third; in Europe Pennsylvania 

 leads, with Columbia second and Harvard 



