The following statistics show the comparative longevity of graduates from Mount Holyoke Seminary, and from a number of colleges for young men. In each case they include a period of thirty years, closing generally with 1867, or within a year or two of that date. They were originally compiled early in 1868, and embraced all the classes which had then graduated at Mount Holyoke. The war mortality is excluded in every case where it was separately stated in the college Triennial, as indicated below. GRADUATED. DECEASED. RATE PER CENT. Mount Holyoke Seminary 1,213 126 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 [52] 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 [52] [52] [52] Percentage 3.25 3.11 3.34 3.13 6.65 3.96 3.10 5.69