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This condition results from two main causes: our ship owners insist on a large profit, and our operating costs are greater. For the first there seems to be no remedy until more of our owners are willing to take the four, or five, or six percent profit with which Europeans are content, instead of usually insisting upon the ten or fifteen percent which the same capital would bring in certain other businesses. As regards the second evil--high operating expenses--the usual proposal is to offset them by some form of ship subsidy. But experience testifies that a subsidy...
...states most heavily represented, after Massachusetts, are New York, with 719 students, or nearly 12 percent of the total; Pennsylvania with 251, Ohio with 229, Illinois with 189, New Jersey with 179, and California with 167. Maine follows with 154 and Connecticut with 136. The smallest state representation is that of Nevada, which has only two students in Cambridge...
...proportion of men from other parts of the country than New England is still increasing. During the past thirty years the percentage of men from outside New England has gradually crept up from 37.7 in 1890 to 43.5 last year. This year the figure has risen again to 44.6 percent. In other words the number of New England men in the college has increased slightly, from 1422 to 1484; the number of men from elsewhere has increased more rapidly...
This increase has been made in spite of a remarkable increase in the number of local men in the Freshman class. More than half of this year's Freshmen, or to be exact, fifty-one and one half percent, entered from Massachusetts homes. About five and one half percent came from the other New England states, forty-one percent from the rest of the country, and a little over one percent from foreign countries. Despite this large Massachusetts representation in the largest Freshman class that ever entered, other factors, such as the wide geographical distribution of the men transferring from...
...this year a more widely distributed student population than any other department. Over three-quarters of the men in the Law School come from outside New England, and no less than 183 colleges are represented in the Law School enrollment of 999 men. The Business School draws 66 percent of its men from outside New England, California in fact standing second only to Massachusetts in the number of its representatives at the School. Fifty-nine percent of the men in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences come from outside New England, and 58 percent in the Medical School...