UNIVERSITY BECOMING MORE OF A NATIONAL INSTITUTION

That the University is yearly becoming more of a national institution is shown by the statistics on membership which were recently compiled.

These figures show conclusively that the percentage of the members of the College which come from outside New England is increasing much faster in recent years than it has in the past. In the year 1888-1889, 37.7 percent in the College came from outside New England. Ten years later it was 37.8; after another ten years it, was 39.2; and after another decade, in 1919-1920, it was 42.5, and this year, 1920-1921, it is 43.7 percent. That the increase of men coming from outside New England is still going on may be judged from the fact that taking into account only the new students in the College this year, the percentage is 48.3.

In New England, Massachusetts contributes by far the greatest number of students with 1259, this being within 200 of the entire contribution of this part of the country.

In the Eastern States, New York is first with 365. The other states in this division were about equal with less than a hundred representatives each. Altogether this part of the country contributes 22 percent of the entire number of men enrolled in the College.

The states of the central division, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, send a percentage of 8.2 of the total enrollment. Ohio leads the list with 82, followed closely by Illinois with 74. The other states are not as well represented, each having less than 20. The total number from this district is 208.

West Sends 7.3 Percent

The district west of the Mississippi is fourth with 185, or 7.3 percent. Of these states, Missouri, California, Iowa and Minnesota have more than 20 men each, while the other states contribute less than this number.

The South is the last district of this country on the list with 104, or 4.1 percent of the total. Louisiana and the District of Columbia have 15 and 14 respectively; the other states have less than ten each.

Delaware, Idaho and Nevada are the only states in the Union which are not represented in the College. Alaska and the Insular Possessions send nine men, and the foreign countries 50. The total enrollment for the College is 2529.

The geographical distribution of students in the entire University is naturally larger than that in the College. 50.5 percent of the men registered in the University last year (1919-1920) came from homes outside of New England. Among all of the departments, the Law School stood first in this respect with 70.4 percent of its students from outside New England. The Business School was second with 68.7; the School of Landscape Architecture, third, with 62.9; the School of Architecture, fourth, with 60.5; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, fifth, with 56.3; the Divinity School, sixth, with 51.7; the Bussey Institute, seventh, with exactly 50 percent; the Medical School, eighth, with 47.7; Harvard College, ninth, with 42.5; the special students under the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, tenth, with 41.1; the Engineering School, eleventh, with 31.7; and the Dental School, twelfth and last, with 29.1 percent.

Many Institutions Represented

Besides this, these various Graduate Schools draw their members from more than three hundred different colleges and universities throughout the country and from the principal countries of Africa, Asia, Europe and from Australia, including Armenia, South Africa, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Mexico, the Philippine Islands, Norway, Sweden and Turkey. Strange to say, China, Japan and South Africa contribute the largest number of the foreign students.

Of all of these schools, the newly established Graduate School of Business Administration has shown the most marked growth. In the year 1919-1920 it drew its members from 31 more colleges than in 1916-1917, and from 53 more than in 1918-1919. Besides this, its numbers have increased over a hundred percent during the last five years. Last year six more foreign countries were represented than ever before in this school.