FRESHMAN STATISTICS

The following statistics have been compiled for the present freshman class of 1917. The distribution by states in order of representation is as follows: Massachusetts 128, New Hampshire 49, New York 38, Vermont 30, Illinois 25, New Jersey 17, Pennsylvania 11, Connecticut 9, Maine 9, Ohio 7, Michigan 5, Colorado 4, Rhode Island 4, Washington 4, and fourteen others with a smaller representation. This order is the same as that for the whole body of students in the catalogue of 1912-1913, for the first five places. New Jersey shows a healthy gain, displacing Maine, and Pennsylvania a proportionately large gain, having more members in the present freshman class than were in the whole College from that state in the catalogue just mentioned. It is interesting to note that in the catalogue exactly twice: as many students registered from Massachusetts as from New Hampshire, while in the class of 1917 there are over two and one-half times as many from Massachusetts.

As in previous years, the preparation for college was in a large majority of cases, in the public schools, the figures being: preparation in public schools 262, in private schools 72, and by a combination of the two 28.

Of the entire class, about one-sixth were the sons of college men. Of the fathers, 17 were graduates of Dartmouth, 5 of Harvard, 4 of Cornell, 3 of Boston University, and 2 each of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, New York University, and German Universities. Twenty-two other institutions of learning are found represented by the fathers of members of 1913, while the mothers of 10 freshmen were graduates of women's colleges. Of these Wellesley had the largest representation.

As might be expected, about the same proportion of fathers, one-sixth, were found to be in the learned professions. About forty per cent were business men. The remainder showed 45 engaged in manufacturing, 40 skilled mechanics, 37 clerks and salesmen, 22 farmers, and 5 laborers.

The tabulation of religious preferences gave the following results: Congregational 115, Episcopal 58, Catholic 34, Methodist 31, Presbyterian 29, Baptist 27, Unitarian 21, Universalist 14, Dutch Reformed 4, Hebrew 4, Christian 2, Christian Science 2, Advent 1.