═══════════════════════════════════════╤══════════╤════════════════════ │Opened in │ Percentage of │ │ graduates married ───────────────────────────────────────┼──────────┼──────────────────── Vassar │ 1865 │ 35.1 Kansas │ 1866 │ 31.3 Minnesota │ 1868 │ 24.5 Cornell │} │} Syracuse │} 1870 │} 31.0 Wesleyan │} │} Nebraska │ 1871 │ 24.3 Boston │ 1873 │ 22.2 Wellesley │} 1875 │} 18.4 Smith │} │} Radcliffe │ 1879 │ 16.5 Bryn Mawr │ 1885 │ 15.2 Barnard │ 1889 │ 10.4 Leland Stanford Junior │ 1891 │ 9.7 Chicago │ 1892 │ 9.4 ═══════════════════════════════════════╧══════════╧════════════════════ It will be seen that independent, affiliated and coeducational colleges fall into their proper place in the series, thus showing conclusively that the method of obtaining a college education exercises scarcely any appreciable influence on the marriage rate. The marriage rate of Bryn Mawr college, calculated in January, 1900, will also serve as an illustration of the importance of time in every consideration of the marriage rate: graduates of the class of 1889, married, 40.7 per cent; graduates of the first two classes, 1889–1890, married, 40.0 per cent; graduates of the first three classes, 1889–1891, married, 33.3 per cent; graduates of the first four classes, 1889–1892, married, 32.9 per cent; graduates of the first five classes, 1889–1893, married, 31.0 per cent; graduates of the first six classes, 1889–1894, married, 30.0 per cent; graduates of the first seven classes, 1889–1895, married, 25.2 per cent; graduates of the first eight classes, 1889–1896, married, 22.8 per cent; graduates of the first nine classes, 1889–1897, married, 20.9 per cent; graduates of the first ten classes, 1889–1898, married, 17.2 per cent; graduates of the first eleven classes, 1889–1899, married, 15.2 per cent.