EDUCATION BUREAU REPORT SHOWS GROWTH OF COLLEGE

Statistics on the Residence of Students in Higher Institutions, prepared by George F. Zook, Specialist in Higher Education, of the Bureau of Education of the Department of the Interior, reveal significantly the growth in size and distribution of the Dartmouth undergraduate body since 1896.

According to the figures for the college year 1896-97 which were compiled by Mr. L. A. Kalbach, now Chief Clerk of the Bureau of Education, there were at that time 569 New Hampshire boys attending colleges and universities. Of these boys 234 attended college in New Hampshire, 199 of them being enrolled at Dartmouth. The enrollment of the College then totalled 620. Percentage figures, therefore, show that of the New Hampshire boys attending college 34.9% had come to Dartmouth and that they comprised 32.1% of the Dartmouth undergraduate body.

In contrast with these figures are Mr. Zook's compilations for the college year 1920-21. According to these there were, last year, 1865 New Hampshire boys enrolled at colleges, of whom only 192, or 10.2% attended Dartmouth and who made up but 10.1% of the Dartmouth student body. The number of students from other states who attended institutions in New Hampshire last year is given as 1886 and represents 66.2 of the total enrollment of the New Hampshire colleges. Of these boys 1682 were enrolled at Dartmouth. Foreign countries and American possessions sent 17 boys to New Hampshire as students. 14 of them coming to Dartmouth.

This year the college enrollment here totals 2011 of whom 200, or 9.9% are New Hampshire boys.