Illinois. 65 per cent. 49 per cent. 83 per cent.

Indiana. 100 per cent. 300 per cent. 108 per cent.

Ohio. 75 per cent. 48 per cent. 85 per cent.

Michigan. 25 per cent. 100 per cent. 146 per cent.

Minnesota. 50 per cent. 28 per cent. 85 per cent.

Wisconsin. 200 per cent. 61 per cent. 250 per cent.

Iowa. 50 per cent. 30 per cent. 300 per cent.

Missouri. 60 per cent. 72 per cent. 95 per cent.

California. 142 per cent. 266 per cent. 240 per cent.

It will be seen that in 1869-70 Harvard led Yale numerically in two states, Wisconsin and California. Now we lead them in five states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, California and Iowa. The correspondent of the Advocate has chosen a very inopportune moment for taking up his clumsy weapons. If he had been here in '79-80 he might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent for his attack, Harvard has made enormous gains and is now much nearer Yale than ever before. In every single representative state the proportion of Harvard men to Yale men is larger than it was in '69-70, and in every state but two larger than in '79-80. In some cases the gain has been wonderful. Yale had many men in the West when Harvard had none; since then Harvard has been quite steadily gaining, and never with greater rapidity than in the last decade. Surely Harvard men have no reason to feel discouraged, and Yale men no reason for boasting.

When to these considerations is added the fact that in New England since 1878 Harvard has made a gain of 484 while Yale has made a gain of 16 we think that Harvard men may reasonably be jubilant.