The communication in another column from the head master of Berkeley School of New York brings about some rather surprising facts about the number of New York men in the two colleges of Harvard and Yale. The gain of Harvard over Yale is very strongly marked considering especially the acknowledged predominance of Yale graduates in New York. The figures which Mr. White has compiled show that Harvard's influence in New York is by no means losing ground as the public is often given to believe. We do not for an instant pretend to assert that more New York men come to Harvard than to Yale; figures directly contradict this. The New York men who are studying for a profession or are taking a scientific course find it more convenient to go to Yale to Harvard. But what we do assert, and on the basis of Mr. White's figures can with authority assert, is that for the general college education required to complete a man's education Harvard has shown herself more worthy the consideration of New York men than has Yale. At present Yale leads in the special schools, but in the college itself where the important training of the college education with all the college life attached is to be had, here Harvard not only leads at present, but for the last thirty years has not ceased to make a steady, effectual gain over Yale.