A study of the list of schools from which members of this year's Freshman class in the College and the Engineering School graduated, reveals two striking facts: first, that nearly two-thirds of the men come from schools in New England; and second, that the number of those who prepared at private institutions is practically the same as those who graduated from public schools, the former being slightly in the majority. Out of the 819 Freshmen, 695 came directly from secondary schools. Of the remaining 124, 77 are transfers from other colleges, while 47 come from private tutors, tutoring schools and foreign lands.

Of the 695 from secondary schools, 493 come from New England and of these Massachusetts sends 366, New Hampshire 83, Connecticut 29, Rhode Island, 8, Maine 5, Vermont 2. Of these 493, 270 come from private and 223 from public schools. This showing on the part of the private schools is, however, made possible only because of the large number of men who come each year from Exeter, Andover, Milton, Middlesex, Groton, St. Mark's, and St. Paul's which have become national in their character.

Of the private schools, the Phillips Exeter Academy has 58 of its graduates in the Freshman class. St. Paul's School of Concord, N. H. is second with 23, while the Phillips Andover Academy, St. Mark's, and Middlesex are all tied for third place with 19. Next comes Milton, with 16, followed by Browne and Nichols and Noble and Greenough with 11 each, the Country Day School and Worcester Academy with nine, St. George's with seven, and Groton with six. Of the large Connecticut schools which send mainly to Yale, Choate and Hotchkiss are represented with six each, while Salisbury and Kept each have four.

The Boston Latin School leads all the public schools with 49 of its representa- tives in the Freshman class. Second and third are Cambridge Latin with 20, and Springfield Central High with 11. Boston English High sends ten, while Brookline High has nine.

New York schools sent only 72 to the University this year. 44 from private and 28 from public. Albany Academy, Hackley, and Horace Mann sent the largest numbers with six, three and six respectively. New Jersey's schools have 23 in the class, nine from private and 14 from public, while 15 come from Pennsylvania. Morristown, with six members of the class, is the leader in this district. The secondary institutions of the South Atlantic section of the United States are represented by 24, the North Central and South Central send 46 and six respectively. The Western States, including the Pacific coast, have 19. The relations of the numbers from the private and public schools in this district is similar to those of New England. There are 102 from private schools and 100 from public.

Although it would appear from the number of graduates of New England schools that two-thirds of the members of the Freshmen class live in that section this is not the case. A great many students, who live in New York, Pennsylvania, and the West, come to the large boarding schools in New England