President Thwing of Adelbert College has very carefully gone through "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" keeping an exact record of the men who have graduated from college, and those who have not.
Out of 15, 142 persons, who have become noted enough to have their names and lives in this work, 5,326 are college graduates and 941 of the remainder are graduates from some academy. About one-third are college men.
The ratio of college graduates who are mentioned in "Appleton's Cyclopaedia" to those that are not thus mentioned is one to forty, while that of non college men who are mentioned to those who are not, is about one to ten thousand. The number of graduates from the leading colleges is as follows: Harvard, 883; Yale, 713; Princeton, 319; Dartmouth 208; Cornell, 198; Brown, 189; Union, 188; Pennsylvania, 175; Williams, 157; Bowdoin 104; Amherst. 102. These are but very few of the facts. The table is so arranged that it shows the percentage of the different professions, and furnishes much other valuable information.
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