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The increasing tendency of Harvard to rid itself of local limitations as to student registration is made clear by a statistical statement of the facts in the report of the Associated Harvard Club's Committee on Schools. This report, which will be read at the meeting of the Associated Clubs in Memphis three weeks hence, shows that whereas in 1900 New Englanders outnumbered students from any other section of the country by more than three and one half to one, in 1925 the ratio was less than two and a third to one.

Although several causes contribute to this cosmopolitanism, that which has had the most effect is probably the Business School which since its creation has drawn men from other colleges and universities all over the country. This, with the Law School has come to be a truly national character. And Harvard College is progressing in the same direction, under the stimulus of the "higher seventh" entrance method, a system especially calculated to attract men from western and southern high schools.

Naturally any broadening of scope must be recognized as a definite asset. In attempting to form a student body which will be really representative Harvard is merely carrying one step further the ideals on which she was originally founded. Any university aiming to serve no particular section but the entire country must needs enforce limits to her own enrollment. This Harvard has done. The Associated Club report would indicate that she is on the way to fulfilling her final end.