10.39

Amherst 1,199 [51]135 11.26

Bowdoin 1,012 [51]120 11.85

Brown 972 120 12.34

Dartmouth 1,639 276 16.83

Harvard 2,326 [51]268 11.52

Williams 1,215 123 10.12

Yale 2,883 387 13.42

The following table shows what percentage of the graduates of each
decade had died at the close of the thirty years.

MH = MT. HOLYOKE.
AM = AMHERST.
BO = BOWDOIN.
BR = BROWN.
DA = DARTMOUTH.
HA = HARVARD.
WI = WILLIAMS.
YA = YALE.

MH. AM. BO. BR. DA. HA. WI. YA.

Graduated in
First Decade 243 327 342 315 589 591 297 904

Deceased 54 71 71 69 153 123 49 201

Percentage 22.22 21.71 20.76 21.90 25.97 20.81 16.49 22.23

Graduated in
Second Decade 447 391 281 306 524 777 435 943

Deceased 55 49 36 40 88 107 59 127
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Percentage 12.30 12.53 12.81 13.07 16.79 13.77 13.56 13.46

Graduated in
Third Decade 523 481 389 351 526 958 483 1,036

Deceased 17 15 13 11 35 38 15 59
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Percentage 3.25 3.11 3.34 3.13 6.65 3.96 3.10 5.69

As these statistics were compiled immediately after the close of the
period embraced, there must have been, in every case, some deaths not
then ascertained, which subsequent Triennials include. For example, the
Amherst Triennial of 1869 makes the number graduated during the thirty
years ending in 1867, 1,203; deceased to that date, 152 (besides deaths
in the war); percentage of mortality, 12.63. In like manner the record
of Mount Holyoke, revised early in 1870, makes the number of deaths
during the above period 139, and the rate per cent 11.46. This, however,
does not materially affect the comparison, in regard to which it was
remarked by Dr. Nathan Allen, in the _Congregationalist_ of June 23,
1870, "This Seminary shows a better record than all the colleges except
Williams." Dr. Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst, in the _Springfield
Republican_ of May 2, 1870, also says: "By these results we learn tha