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...western institutions is found in a comparison of the position which state representation occupies in relation to total enrollment in both the eastern and western universities. For example, the largest percentage among the eastern universities of enrollment from its own state over total registration, namely 67 per cent., is found at the University of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is followed by Columbia with 62 per cent. of its students coming from New York, Cornell with 55 per cent. of its students coming from the same state; Harvard with 50 per cent. of its student body residing in Massachusetts; Yale with...
...clientele of the latter, with the exception of the University of Michigan, is much more local in character. The following figures represent the percentage of the student body in six large universities which claim the state in which the institution is located as their permanent home: Minnesota, 94 per cent.; California, 88 per cent.; Stanford, 78 per cent.; Illinois, 77 per cent.; Wisconsin, 75 per cent.; and Michigan, 53 per cent...
Some interesting figures have been compiled by Mr. H. T. Claus for the Transcript to show that the cost of a college education has increased very considerably since 1892. The average increase in tuition fees for thirty colleges for which statistics were taken was slightly more than 40 per cent. The rate of increase in the cost of board for about the same colleges was 23 per cent. At Harvard and Yale there have been no substantial changes in tuition. The cost of board at Harvard has, however, increased 22 per cent since...
...whole year, Harvard gives 32.05 per cent. in holidays; Yale, 33.15; Princeton, 33.83; Columbia, 35.07; Dartmouth, 32.33; Brown, 33.97; and Pennsylvania, 34.52. Summer. Thanksgiving. Christmas. Easter. Other days. Total. Harvard, 95 1 11 7 3 117 Yale, 98 1 1/2 14 7 1/2 0 121 Princeton, 98 4 1/2 14 1/2 5 1/2 1 123 1/2 Columbia, 104 3 13 5 3 128 Dartmouth, 84 1 14 14 5 118 Brown...
...also of interest to note the change which has taken place in the operation of the new plan during the past year in the percentage of men admitted over the percentage of men rejected. In 1911, 59.4 per cent of the total number of applicants were admitted, while 40.2 per cent were rejected. On the other hand, in 1912, out of a total of 213 applicants 154, or 72.3 per cent, secured entrance, while 59, or 27.6 per cent, failed. This considerable growth since last year in the percentage of men admitted over the total number who applied under...