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Rh Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 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.

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: —