TABLE 53.-Race distribution of students in higher educational institutions, by sex-Con.

Of the 32,887 students for whom information was secured, 29,521, or 89.8 per cent of the total, were native-born, and 3,366, or 10.2 per cent, were foreign-born. Immigrants of the second generation (native-born of foreign father) number 8,304, or 25.3 per cent of the total.

The students native-born white of native father constitute almost two-thirds of the total number. The races represented by more than 500 students are the following:

Races represented by more than 500 students.

White native-born of native father..
German native-born of foreign father..
Irish native-born of foreign father...
Hebrew native-born of foreign father.
Hebrew foreign-born..

Per cent of total.

64.0

7.1

4. 4

3.8

3.7

2.4

1.8

English native-born of foreign father..

Canadian (other than French) native-born of foreign father..

A comparison of the figures for the sexes show that a considerably larger proportion of the males than of the females were foreign-born; the percentages are 11.6 and 5.4, respectively. The races occupy much the same order as far as the proportion is concerned, among males and females.

The tables next presented show for each of the departments the proportion of students of each race. In the first table, which relates to males, races represented by fewer than 100 students in the total for the 9 departments are not separately enumerated but are grouped under "other races," and in the second table, which relates to females, races represented by fewer than 50 students in the total for the 8 departments are not separately enumerated. In these tables Hebrews of the various nationalities are considered one race.

TABLE 54.-Race distribution of male students, by department; percentages.

a "Other races" includes races having fewer than 100 representatives in the total for the 9 departments. TABLE 55.-Race distribution of female students, by department; percentages.

a" Other races" includes races having fewer than 50 representatives in the total for the 8 departments.

mns which show the totals have already been discussed in with a previous table, and attention will be called only ous departments. Of the students in the academic departper cent of the males and 3 per cent of the females are n, and 26.5 per cent of the males and 20.8 per cent of the > immigrants of the second generation (native-born of for:). Aside from the native-born whites of native father, ws of the second generation among the males, and the f the second generation among the females, have the highions, the percentages being 6.1 and 5.8, respectively. tudents in the engineering and technological department, t of the males and 9.1 per cent of the females are foreign23.6 per cent of the males and 34.2 per cent of the females rants of the second generation (native-born of foreign

udents in medicine, 11.5 per cent of the males and 19 per females are foreign-born, and 24 per cent of the males and nt of the females are native-born of foreign father. rison of the proportions in the various departments is also For the males the per cent native-born white of native the per cent foreign-born are as follows:

Hebrew students native-born of foreign father are 7.3 the total in law and only 0.1 per cent of the total in

TABLE 54.-Race distribution of male students, by department; percentages.

a "Other races" includes races having fewer than 100 representatives in the total for the 9 departments. TABLE 55.-Race distribution of female students, by department; percentages.

a" Other races" includes races having fewer than 50 representatives in the total for the 8 departments.