The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-05


 From this table it appears that New
 York state leads in the number of men
 sent to Yale, this being essentially one
 fourth of the total number of students
 while Connecticut follows in the sec
 ond position, with essentially one-fifth.
 Pennsylvania stands third, with Mas
 saehusetts, Illinois. Ohio and New Jer-
 sey following with a comparatively
 large representation, which is essential
 ly one-fourth the number from Con-
 neetcut. The next largest number of
 students comes from Maine and Yer
 mont. Kentucky and Tennessee, each
 of which is represented by about the same number of men that we find from
 Great Britain and Ireland, which was
 the birthplace of thirteen men.
 Now, if we look at this table to dis cover the distribution of the birthplaces
 of parents, we find that New York is
 still represented by the largest number,
 tlthough the number of parents is not so great as the number of pupils and
 if we glance at the columns represent
 ing the birthplace of grandparents, we see that there is diminishing number
 on both the paternal and maternal
 sides. This same fact is found to exist with regard to the parents of students from Connecticut, while the number of
 grandparents from this state is larger than the number of parents This point is worthy of special study in connection with what we observe in the case of some of the other states like Illinois where many of these grandparents of Yale men may he located, as we see a 1,,o yo6 dof1innntr in, ho he of grandparents born in that state as com- pared with the number of students from it. Pennsylvania has a comparatively large number of parents born within her borders, but the number of grand parents shows a proportion somewhat similar to those from New York. In the case of Massachusetts we notice that the number of parents corresponds closely with the number of students, while the list of grandparents from that state is larger than would be anticipa- ted if nothing were known of the social forces re-acting upon college life, The reverse of the statistical conditions ot Massachusetts are found in New Jersey, Ohio and Illinois, while they are dupli- cated ty those from Maine. Vermont Great Britain and Ireland, Germany and the south, if we accept the statis- tics of the two Carolinas as fairly rep resenting that section of the country.
 I am not willing to say that the fol- lowing suggestions are perfectly de manstrated by the above table, but l offer them as possible explanations of | some of these varia tions that are ob- served. First, the rapid growth of New | York would require that many of the | immediate ancestors of the younger | rart of the population must have come there from other regions. and it Is fair to suppose that some of the grandpa rents and parents that are found in eX- l cess in the list of those from Great 1 Britain. Germany and Massachusetts are located in the state, and the same | cause would explain the peculiar list from Illinois. In the case of Massachu- sets, Maine and Vermont which are of the whole New Eng land section, we find the excess of which may be explained by the emigration from this region to such western sections as Illinois and ! Ohio.
 The comparatively large number of men that come from remote regions must be a matter of congratulation to all loyal sons of Yale, and it would seem fair to conclude that the loyalty of the eastern emigrant to eastern institutions, md that deep regard for higher forms of education remains permanently fixed. although the location may be widely changed. A second source of is found in the fact that so arge an element Of foreign population