each Ann Arbor. Not less worthy of note is the fact
that only about 39 percent of the graduates of the University live
within the State, proof positive that Michigan, in sending her students
abroad, is performing a great service for the country. The percentages
of alumni in other states is also not without interest, for while the
neighboring states of Illinois and Ohio claim about 8 percent and
Indiana 3.7 percent, New York has 6 percent of Michigan's graduates,
while Pennsylvania has 3.5 percent, and California 3.2 percent. About
2.5 percent of Michigan's former students, or 1,093, live in foreign
countries. Of these 318 are in Canada, 126 in China, 62 in Great
Britain, 61 in South America, 51 in Africa, and 46 in Japan. Of the
United States dependencies, 66 are in Porto Rico, 54 in the Philippines,
and 17 in Alaska. These figures might easily be increased were the
addresses of all alumni found, as there are, no doubt, a large number of
"unknowns" in foreign countries. Of the total number of graduates and
foreign students for whom the University has addresses, 36,492 are men
and 7,291 are women.

This great body of alumni is in itself a powerful asset for the
University; but the active interest and spirit of co-operation of the
individual alumnus ordinarily needs a certain stimulus. This is supplied
through the organization of the graduates into a general Alumni
Association, as well as into local associations in most of the larger
cities, and also through the organization of the various classes. This
general scheme is followed in almost every American university, and
forms one of the most significant of present-day developments. For the
most part it is a comparatively recent evolution. Though the graduates
of the earlier American colleges had a certain influence on the policies
and growth of their institutions, it is only within the last twenty-five
years that these associations have become a factor of recognized
importance in every university. In fact this development is so recent
that its significance is not sufficiently realized, least of all
perhaps by the alumni themselves; though the college president is apt to
be very alive to the importance of the alumni in university affairs.

The desire to perpetuate college friendships and to revive memories of
college days was undoubtedly the underlying motive which first brought
the former students together in these organizations; and not a few
associations have progresse