gain. gain.

Four New England States, 109 90

Mass., Conn., N. Y., 97 124

Middle States, 59 116

Southern States, 196 110

Central States, 194 119

Western States, 712 74

Pacific States, 28 23

Foreign countries, 138 73

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Totals, 107 117

The enormous percentage of gain in Harvard students from the Western States is due to the very small number of those students ten years ago. The small gain from the Pacific States is no doubt due to the development of universities there.

The whole number of students in the Harvard catalogue for the current year is 3,290; in the Yale catalogue, 2,350. This does not include the students in the Summer School at Harvard.

It thus appears that in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Middle States the influence of Yale as compared with that of Harvard has grown in the last ten years, while that of Harvard has grown everywhere else. It is safe, I think, to say that most of the students who would probably be drawn to college by love for athletics rather than for scholarship come from the East. Whether the recent success of Yale in the field of athletics and of Harvard in the field of scholarship can explain the tendency here noticed will never, I suppose, be mathematically demonstrated.

The last table shows the actual number of students outside New England and the Middle States at Harvard and at Yale, in the last catalogue and ten years ago, and the percentage of those students to the whole number.