Representation from Preparatory Schools.

It is of interest to note the comparative number of men who have entered the last four classes in the academic department from Phillips Exeter, Phillips Andover and St. Paul's. Although these schools furnish by no means as large numbers of students to Harvard as some free preparatory schools, they yet draw their students from a very large area of the country, and are without question, the most representative schools.

From Phillips Exeter there entered with the class of ninety-four, twenty-eight students; with ninety-five, thirty-two; with ninety-six, twenty three; and with ninety-seven, twenty-one. Ninety-four had eleven men from Phillips Andover in her freshman year; ninety-five, ten; ninety-six, fourteen; and ninety-seven, thirteen. St. Paul's sent twelve men to the class of ninety-four, ten to ninety-five, eighteen to ninety-six, and fifteen to ninety-seven.

These figures show an increase in the course of the four years in the number of men from both St. Paul's and Andover, but a falling off in the number from Exeter. This apparently retrograde movement in regard to the representation from Exeter is owing to the great decrease in the number of students at Exeter proper, and as an actual fact the percentage of students who came this year to Harvard in proportion to the total number of students at Exeter is greater than in the previous four years.