FRESHMAN STATISTICS
The following statistics, based on the blanks filled out at matriculation, have been compiled for the freshman class. The distribution by states in order of representation is as follows: Massachusetts 139, New York 80, New Hampshire 61, Vermont 24, Ohio 21, Illinois 19, Connecticut 19, Pennsylvania 18, New Jersey IS, Maine 14, Minnesota 10, lowa 8, Rhode Island 6, Michigan 4, Texas 4, Indiana 4, and sixteen other states and countries with smaller representations. Vermont has returned again to her old position as fourth, and Ohio has at last outstripped Illinois, the latter state sending ten fewer men than it did last year.
As always, the majority of the class prepared in the public schools: 325 in public schools, 105 in private schools, and 42 in both.
About one-fifth of the class are sons of college graduates, as against one-sixth in each of the last two entering classes. Of the fathers, 31 were graduated from Dartmouth, 4 each from Boston University and the University of Michigan, 3 from Columbia, 2 each from Harvard, Yale, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cornell, Bates, University of lowa, University of Pennsylvania, University of Vermont, and Tufts. Thirty-five other colleges and universities are represented by the fathers of freshmen. Twenty-eight mothers of freshmen are college graduates ; of these five each are graduates of Wellesley and Smith, three of Mount Holyoke, and two each of Radcliffe and Oberlin.
The tabulation of religious preference shows the following division: 144 Congregationalists, 70 Episcopalians, 52 Presbyterians, 48 Roman Catholics, 38 Methodists, 34 Baptists, 25 Unitarians, 16 Universalists, 9 Hebrews, 8 Christian Scientists, 6 scattering, and 22 without preference.
The occupations of the fathers are thus divided: business men 112, manufacturers 54, lawyers 43, skilled mechanics 38, clerks and salesmen 32, bankers and brokers 30, farmers 19, doctors 17, printers and publishers 15, accountants and bookkeepers 14, teachers 13, authors and journalists 13, architects and engineers 10, contractors 10, laborers 8, chemists and druggists 8, ministers 7, miscellaneous 28.
