DIAGRAM 7.-Percentage of male and female students in universities and colleges; being a graphic representation of the data contained in Table 14. TABLE 14.—Per cent of male and of female students in universities and colleges. NUMBER OF FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS AS COMPARED WITH THE POPULATION-PROPORTION IN EACH CLASS OF INSTITUTIONS. Table 15 (p. 23) divides the whole number of female college students into three classes, according to the character of institution attended, viz, (1) public coeducational colleges, (2) private coeducational colleges, and (3) colleges for women only. Table 16 compares the number of female college students with the population, giving the number to each 100,000 inhabitants, classified as before. The same is also shown graphically in Diagram 8. DIAGRAM 8.-Number of female college students to each 100,000 persons of the population; being a graphic representation of the data contained in Table 16. Table 17 and Diagram 9 give the proportion or percentage attending each class of institutions. DIAGRAM 9.-Per cent of the whole number of female college students in each class of institutions attended by them; being a graphic representation of Table 17. N.C.Div. 3.4 W. Div. I.-Public coeducational institutions 50% W. Div. II. Private coeducational institutions. 57.9 42.8 III.-Colleges for women only. 53.5 67.7 88.7 73.2 100% It appears that in the United States 36 women attend college for every 100,000 persons, which is in the ratio of 1 to 2,800 of the popula tion. Of these 36 there are 4.1 attending public coeducational institutions, 12.6 attending private coeducational institutions, and 19.3 attending colleges for women only; 11.5 per cent of the whole number attend public coeducational institutions, or 1 in 9; 35 per cent attend private coeducational institutions, making a total of 46.5 per cent, or nearly onehalf, in coeducational institutions; 53.5 per cent attend colleges for women only. By inspecting the geographical classification the status of female college education is seen to present striking contrasts in the different sections of the country. In the first place, it is developed by far to the greatest extent in the South, the two Southern divisions having 48.7 and 50-2 students per100,000 persons, respectively (see Diagram 8), or nearly twice the average of the rest of the Union. In the next place, this large attendance is found almost exclusively in colleges for women only, in the South Atlantic Division 88.7 per cent and in the South Central Division 73-2 per cent of the whole attending that class of institutions. (Diagram 9.) The North Atlantic Division is distinguished by having a less number of female college students in proportion to population than any other section of the Union, viz, 25.3 per 100,000 persons; and this in spite of the fact that all the female colleges of a higher grade (included under Division A in the detailed female college tables of this Report), with three exceptions only, are found in the North Atlantic Division. The female college students in that section, therefore, while fewer in number, are pursuing more strictly collegiate courses, according to the generally recognized standards; in the South, on the other hand, female colleges frequently do not rise above the type of the secondary school. There is danger here as elsewhere of being led astray by names. The North Atlantic States resemble the South, however, in their slow acceptance of the coeducational idea. Of all the female college students in those States 67.7 per cent, or more than two-thirds, are found in exclusively female colleges. In this respect the West offers a strong contrast to the East and South. In the North Central States only 16.4 per cent, or less than a sixth of the female students, are met with in colleges for women only, while in the Western Division all but 3-4 per cent, or more than 29 out of 30, attend coeducational institutions. Coeducation is a distinguishing feature of the public as well as the private colleges in the North Central and Western States. Of the 33-9 female college students per 100,000 inhabitants in the North Central States 8.7, or more than one-fourth, attend public universities and colleges, while of the 25·5 students per 100,000 in the Western Division 13-7, or more than one-half, attend public institutions. Public female college students in the East and South are almost nonexistent. What coeducational students there are in those sections are found almost wholly in private institutions. TABLE 15.-Classification of female college students according to character of institu tion attended. a a In this table, as in the others relating to higher education, all secondary or preparatory students are excluded; only those in collegiate and post-graduate departments are considered. TABLE 16.-Number of female college students to cach 100,000 persons of the population. TABLE 17.-Showing percentage of the whole number of female college students in each The United States... North Atlantic Division class of institutions. Table 18 gives the number of normal students of each sex in public. and private normal schools, all nonprofessional students being excluded. Table 19 and Diagram 10 give the proportion, or percentage, of each |