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...whole ground again. The true number of men here from the west (using the west shortly for the United States outside of New England and New York) is 458, instead of 541, as the Advocate correspondent has it. It is easy to calculate that 458 is 22 per cent. of 2079. Yet the Advocate correspondent makes 541, almost 100 more than 458, only 20.6 per cent. of the same number. Errors such as these are fundamental, and no argument can proceed on tables so compiled. We have not had time to go over the figures which the Advocate correspondent gives...
...England. 571-38.0 per cent. 1394-67 per cent...
Thirty-five states of the union, besides the District of Columbia, are represented on the list of students; of the total number of 909, 533 are from Massachusetts, or 58.6 per cent, of the whole; 114 are from other New England states; 262 from outside New England, of whom 22 are from foreign countries. The average age of 255 students is eighteen years, six months and twelve days...
...students in the German courses at Princeton who have ranked above 85 per cent. in their term work, have been excused from the midyear examination...
Again, Harvard from '82 to '86 made a total gain of 316, and 22.8 per cent. or 71 of these were from the west. Since 1886 we have 391, of whom 193 or 49,4 per cent. were from the west. That is to say the proportion of western men in our gains is now more than twice as great as it was five years ago. Between '82 and '86, we gained on an average 18 western men a year, since 1886 we have gained an average of over 38 men a year. This year we gained 51. Does this...