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THE AGE OF COLLEGE GRADUATION.
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very few students, while in the last decade they have a relatively very much higher number of graduates, thus acquiring an undue influence in the second decade, and failing to exert this influence in the first

decade. This fact, which does not come out in this plate, becomes much clearer if we take decade 1860-69 for comparison with decade 1890-99.