236 HARVARD LAW REVIEW. Below are given the usual tables showing the sources from which seven successive classes have been drawn, both as to previous college training and as to the geographical districts from which the students have come : — Harvard Graduates. From Mas- NewEr icland outside Outside of New Class of sachusetts. of Massachusetts. England. Total. 1893 34 I 19 54 1894 30 2 17 49 'f9| 32 4 13 49 1896 ^Z 7 17 47 '^97 27 2 15 44 1898 42 I 25 68 1899 45 6 19 70 Graduates of OTHER Colleges. From Mas- New England outside Outside of New Class of sachusetts. of Massachusetts. England. Total. 1893 5 9 21 fs 1894 7 20 38 'f95 8 14 30 52 1896 14 II 45 70 =? 9 19 12 23 I2 77 104 1899 21 12 45 78 Holding NO Degrf.k. New En eland 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 '^95 16 3 14 zz 135 1896 10 4 9 23 140 1897 26 7 16 49 170 1898 25 2 25 52 224 1899 II 2 8 21 169 The following thirty-five colleges have conferred their first degrees on members of the entering class, the figures indicating the number of men from each college, where more than one : Amherst (9), Yale (9), Princeton (7), Brown (6), Bowdoin (4), Leland Stanford (4), Bates (3), Cornell (3), De Pauw (3), Dartmouth (2), Knox (2), Mass. Institute of Technology (2), Union (2), University of Alabama, Boston College, University of California, University of Chicago, Colgate, Dalhousie, Georgetown, Hillsdale, Holy Cross, Iowa, Johns Hopkins, Lake Forest, Louisiana, McGill, Middlebury, Oberlin, Ohio State University, Trinity, Vanderbilt, University of Vermont, Williams, and North Western. A significant fact, showing a continued increase in the earnestness of the men who come to the School, is that the percentage of men with- drawing or not taking examinations very steadily decreases. Last year but eight per cent of the first year and three per cent of the second year men were placed in this list. Preference of Veterans in the Massachusetts Civil Service. — The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, having disallowed as clearly un- reasonable the proposition that any veteran, however unfit, must have any office, however necessary its duties might make fitness {Brown v.
