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221 NOTES. 221 therefore, that the list would be a larger one. The explanation is to be found in the fact that specials who do not work have been thoroughly dis- couraged, and for those who desire to work hard the regular classes are as accessible. Probably after the increase in the requirements for regular standing goes into effect next year the number of the specials will rise again. The pendency of the increase in requirements also accounts for the second noteworthy figure, the increase of over twenty per cent in the numbers of the first-year class. But the remarkable size of the third- year class, also twenty per cent larger than that of last year, though formed out of a second-year class really no larger, is perfectly normal, and must be due to a recognition both of the increase in the quantity of instruction offered and of the advantages of a third year of study. The usual table of the sources of the degrees held by the members of the first-year classes is next given for the five years last past. Under the sources of degrees men are divided again according to their respect- ive homes. Harvard Graduates. From Mas- New England outside Outside of New Class of sacbusetts. of Massachusetts. England. Total. 1893 34 I 19 54 1894 30 2 17 49 '^95 32 4 13 49 1896 23 7 17 47 1897 27 2 IS 44 Graduates OF OTHER Colleges From Mas- New Englan d outside Outside of New Class of sachusetts. of Massachusetts. England. Total 1893 5 9 21 l 1894 7 20 38 '^95 8 14 30 52 1896 14 II 45 70 1897 9 12 50 . 77 Holding no Degree. New Enj 'land Outside From Mas- outside of of New Total. Total of Class of sachusetts. Massachusetts. England. , Class. 1893 4 I 7 12 lOI 1894 20 I 10 31 142 189^ 16 3 14 34 135 1896 10 4 9 23 140 1897 26 7 16 49 170 Thirty-nine colleges send one man apiece, ten colleges send from two to four men each, and Yale sends eight ; Leland Stanford, Jr. sends none this year, as against five last year, — a decrease probably due to the start- ing of the Law School there ; on the other hand, the University of Cali- fornia sends four in place of one. The greatest matter for congratulation here is probably to be found in the increased number of other colleges which send their graduates hither, — fifty this year, as against about thirty last year. This goes to show that the influence of the School gains steadily. Another bit of evidence to the same effect is that there are seventy-two real strangers, men who are neither residents of New England nor Harvard graduates, as against fifty-four such last year. In a valuable address delivered by Mr. James C Carter of New York to the last graduating class of the Law School of the Columbian University,