577 High Schools Represented in '50

No longer a Bay State stamping ground in any sense of the term, the College had its most widely representative Freshman class in history during the past year, special figures complied last week indicated.

Throughout the year members of the state legislature noted this fact with a start, hoping somehow to place a tax on the high out-of-state percentage of students. Several bills to this effect were drafted, but they never came to a vote.

Among the 1,582 Freshmen in their first or second term of residence by February, 577 different high schools were represented. The previous high in distribution of this kind occurred in 1945, when the class was composed of graduates from 425 high schools.