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Massachusetts, Missouri,[1] New Hampshire,[1] New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,[1] and Vermont. As regards colleges other than Harvard which feed the School, the Dean's tables show that one hundred and twenty- five institutions scattered all over the country have sent four hundred and sixty-three students in eighteen years, but that only four — namely, Amherst (with twenty-five graduates), Bowdoin (with nineteen). Brown (with twenty-eight), and Yale (with forty-seven) — can be said to be constant contributors. Dartmouth (with eighteen graduates), Michigan (with twelve), Oberlin (with thirteen since 1877-78), Princeton (with thirteen), and Williams (with, eighteen), have been less regular contributors; and no other institution has sent more than nine students in the eighteen years which the tables cover. . . . As the Dean points out, the most important change which has taken place in the School since 1870-71, apart from improvements in the scheme and methods of the instruction, is to be found in the increased length of residence of the average student."


Professor Langdell's report, as Dean of the Law School, contains a number of tables of great interest, showing in detail the attendance at the Law School during the last eighteen years; the results of the various examinations; the number of honor degrees; the States, countries, and colleges from which the students have come since 1870; and the fractional part of each Harvard College class, since 1834, which it has sent to the Law School.[2]

The following table, based upon two tables in the report, shows the number of the new students who have entered the School in each year, during the last eighteen years, together with the total number of stu- dents in all classes registered during each year: —

Year. Harvard Graduates entering. Graduates of other College's entering'. Non—Graduates entering. Whole Number of New Students entering. Total Number of Students registered.
1870-71 19 41 45 105 165
1871-72 26 30 36 92 138
1872-73 22 25 40 87 117
1873-74 29 29 37 95 141
1874-75 40 15 47 102 144
1875-76 39 28 52 119 173
1876-77 47 30 51 128 199
1877-78 47 32 32 111 196
1878-79 38 24 40 102 169
1879-80 59 17 48 124 177
1880-81 41 19 31 91 161
1881-82 29 24 44 97 161
1882-83 33 23 28 84 138
1883-84 47 14 25 86 150
1884-85 56 23 22 101 156
1885-86 35 25 28 88 158
1886-87 46 34 33 113 188
1887-88 52 30 52 134 225

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Except in one year.
  2. President's Report, pp. 99-105.