GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SCHOOLS SENDING STUDENTS TO DARTMOUTH

In speaking of the growth in the number of students, it has become almost a custom within the last few years to say that Dartmouth College is no longer a local institution but that it has become one of national importance. The fact that for the current year over forty percent of the students come from outside of New England would seem to bear out this statement, and an examination of the location of the schools in which the students were prepared for college adds emphasis to it.

The records for twelve years (1904-1915) show that 4230 students were admitted to the Freshman classes from 772 different schools, 404 of which are located outside of New England. As would be expected, although the schools outside of New England represent 52 percent of the total, only 33 percent of the students were prepared for college in them. During the twelve year period mentioned above, of the 404 schools outside of New England 184 sent only one student each ; 92 sent only two each ; and only 16 sent more than twelve students. The list of schools averaging more than one student per year with the total number of men from the schools is as follows:

Evanston, Ill., High School..........17 Cleveland, O., University School.....18 New Rochelle, N. Y., High School...18 Bordentown, N. J., Military Institute.18 Oak Park, Ill., High School.........19 Cleveland, O., East High School....19 Rockford, Ill., High School..........19 Omaha, Neb., High School..........21 Denver, Colo., East High School.....22 Lawrenceville, N. J., School..........25 New York, DeWitt Clinton H. 5....27 Albany, N. Y„ High School.........28 Mercersburg, Penn., Academy..........29 Brooklyn, N. Y., Boys High School...31 Chicago, Ill., University High School.41 Brooklyn, N. Y., Erasmus Hall H. S....49

In the above list the University High School of Chicago is the only school that sent at least one student each year; the Boys High School of Brooklyn and the Erasmus Hall High School of the same city each sent students in all years except one. The schools of Chicago sent a total of 109 students, Brooklyn 100, New York City 96, Cleveland 57, Washington 50, and Denver 28.

Of the 368 New England Schools 100 sent only one student; 59 sent only two; and 67 sent more than twelve students. The list of New England schools averaging more than two students per year with number of students is as follows :

Keene, N. H., High School.........25 Haverhill, Mass., High School......26 Littleton, N. H., High School......26 *Worcester, Mass., Classical H. 5....26 *Medford, Mass., High 'School......27 Boston, Mass., Mechanic Arts H. S...28 *Hanover, N. H., High School......28 *Holyoke, Mass., High School.......28 Nashua, N. H., High School.......30 *Melrose, Mass., High School........32 *Boston, Mass., Latin School.........34 Dorchester, Mass., High School.....34 *Lawrence, Mass., High School ......34 *Springfield, Mass., Central H. S.....34 Boston, Mass., English High School.36 Meriden, N. H., Kimball Union Academy.........................37 *Lowell, Mass.. High School.........45 Concord, N. H„ High School.......46 Lynn, Mass., Classical High School.54 Worcester, Mass., Academy..........54 *Manchester, N. H., High School.....60 Somerville, Mass., High School......60 Newton, Mass., High School........64 *Andover, Mass., Academy............. 83 *Exeter, N. H., Academy........... 140

In the above list those schools marked with an asterisk had continuous representation during the period under consideration, as well as The Holton High School of Danvers, Mass., and the Win-Chester, Mass., High School. Schools located in Boston sent a total of 164 students, Worcester 110, Newton 81, and Portland 52. The schools in the district termed Greater Boston sent a total of 639 students.

The geographical distribution of the schools outside of New England shows 215 in the Middle Atlantic States, of which New York has 135; the Middle West has a total of 149, with Illinois leading with 47 and Ohio second with 30; the Far West is represented by 24 schools, 13 of which are located in Colorado. As would be expected the South has very few schools on the list, there being only twelve and these are widely scattered. Four schools from outside the country have sent students, two of which are in Canada, and one each in Hawaii and China.

The New England schools show the following distribution. It will be noted that more than one-half of these are located in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts..................188 New Hampshire.................53 Connecticut....................43 Maine..........................38 Vermont........................ 35 Rhode Island...................11

The schools of Massachusetts and New Hampshire sending the largest number of students are given in one of the preceding lists. In Connecticut the Hartford High School leads, followed by the New Britain High School. Portland High School, Hebron Academy and the Calais Academy lead in Maine. St. Johnsbury Academy, which in former years stood at the top of the list in New England, still leads in Vermont but in all probability will soon be passed by the Spaulding High School of Barre and the Rutland High School, which are next in order.

Statistics covering a considerable period of years show that about 70 percent of the students entering Dartmouth receive all their preparatory education in public high schools. This same proportion holds for the number of public high schools on the list under consideration. Of the 772 schools, 545 are public schools; and of the 227 private schools, 102 are located in New England and 125 outside.

The following" table shows the number of different schools sending students each year, divided into two groups; New England and outside of New England. It also shows the number of men in the Freshman classes in each year.

YEAR NEW ENG. OUTSIDE OF N. E. TOTAL NO. OF FRESHMEN 1904 107 25 132 255 1905 103 35 138 303 1906 125 56 181 355 1907 114 53 167 357 1908 115 51 166 334 1909 111 76 187 309 1910 121 89 210 398 1911 111 104 215 425 1912 115 87 202 405 1913 115 96 211 382 1914 127 111 238 443 1915 138 142 280 486

The significant feature of the above list would seem to be the great increase in the number of schools outside of New England coincident with the increase in the size of the Freshman classes. The increase in the number of New England schools in the last year might at first thought be attributed to the withdrawal of Dartmouth from the New England College Entrance Certificate Board, but an examination of the list for that year shows that with but two or three exceptions all the New England schools had sent students to this college in previous years, or were on the list of the Certificate Board.

Howard Murray Tibbetts '00, Registrar of Dartmouth College