OFFICIAL FIGURES SHOW REGISTRATION OF 6073

Every state in the Union, Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and 42 foreign countries are represented this year among the 6073 students registered at the University, according to the official figures. Included are 2344 students from Massachusetts, or a little less than 39 percent of the entire University enrollment. Eight percent of the student body come from the other New England states, making the total percentage of New Englanders slightly under 47. Forty-eight percent come from other parts of the United States, one half of one percent from the outlying territories of the United States, and about four and one half percent from foreign countries.

The states most heavily represented, after Massachusetts, are New York, with 719 students, or nearly 12 percent of the total; Pennsylvania with 251, Ohio with 229, Illinois with 189, New Jersey with 179, and California with 167. Maine follows with 154 and Connecticut with 136. The smallest state representation is that of Nevada, which has only two students in Cambridge.

Canada Leads Foreign Countries

Among the foreign countries represented, Canada leads with 74 students, China is second with 54, Japan is third with 20, South Africa fourth with 16, and France and India tied for fifth with 12. The Canadians are scattered through the various departments, with the largest groups in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law School and the College. Of the Chinese, nine are in the College, 16 in the Graduate School and 12 in the Business School, with the rest distributed among the other departments. Eight of the 20 Japanese are in the Graduate School. The South Africans on the other hand concentrate upon dentistry; 13 of their group of 16 are in the Dental School. Thirty-six other foreign countries in every part of the world are also represented at the University.

The figures for the College, as distinguished from the entire University, show that the proportion of men from other parts of the country than New England is still increasing. During the past thirty years the percentage of men from outside New England has gradually crept up from 37.7 in 1890 to 43.5 last year. This year the figure has risen again to 44.6 percent. In other words the number of New England men in the college has increased slightly, from 1422 to 1484; the number of men from elsewhere has increased more rapidly.

Many Freshmen From New England

This increase has been made in spite of a remarkable increase in the number of local men in the Freshman class. More than half of this year's Freshmen, or to be exact, fifty-one and one half percent, entered from Massachusetts homes. About five and one half percent came from the other New England states, forty-one percent from the rest of the country, and a little over one percent from foreign countries. Despite this large Massachusetts representation in the largest Freshman class that ever entered, other factors, such as the wide geographical distribution of the men transferring from other colleges to a provisional rating as upper-classmen, brought about the increase in the proportion of students from other parts of the country in the College as a whole.

The Law School has this year a more widely distributed student population than any other department. Over three-quarters of the men in the Law School come from outside New England, and no less than 183 colleges are represented in the Law School enrollment of 999 men. The Business School draws 66 percent of its men from outside New England, California in fact standing second only to Massachusetts in the number of its representatives at the School. Fifty-nine percent of the men in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences come from outside New England, and 58 percent in the Medical School.