A "NATIONAL" COLLEGE
Dartmouth is one of ten colleges and universities in the United States which may be considered truly national institutions so far as the geographical distribution of their student bodies is concerned, according to the results of a study announced during the summer by C. R. Foster, assistant professor of Education at Rutgers University, and Paul S. Dwyer, associate professor of Education at Antioch College. The announcement was widely circulated in the press.
The ten institutions, listed in a bulletin published by the Rutgers School of Education, are:
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio; Asbury College, Wilmore, Ky.; Sweetbriar College, Sweetbriar, Va.; Washington and Lee, Lexington, Va.; Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.; Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.; Smith College, Northampton, Mass.; Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., and University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind.
These institutions rank as national ones, the authors explain, because in each of them at least three-fourths of the states and the nine geographic districts recognized by the United States Bureau of Census are represented, and in each college less than 30 per cent of the students are from the state in which the institution is located.
Of the 363 American colleges and universities included in the study, Antioch has the "most ideal" distribution of students, with Asbury second and sweetbriar third. Such institutions as Harvard, Williams, Trinity, Goucher, Amherst, Catholic, Bethany, Vassar, Mount Holyoke and Bryn Mawr are not in- cluded in the national group, but are listed as "interscholastic institutions
Listed as "sectional" places of learning are Princeton, Brown, Lafayette, Bowdoin, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Rollins, Oberlin and others.
New York City is mentioned by the authors as providing two examples of colleges in which there is no geographic distribution of students—Hunter College and the College of the City of New York, whose students are obtained entirely within the city limits.
