512 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



In l899-liK)0 the university had 3,183 students, of which 1,449 were 

 women, and in 1900-1901, 3,612 students with 240 teachers and 25 

 administrative eniplovees (11 women, 4 with title of professor), who 

 receive salaries varying from $400 to 17,000. Among the instructors 

 were 12 Germans, and 53 had studied in Germany. In 1900-1901 

 there were 1,200 lectures, mostly arranged in courses of three months' 

 duration, corresponding to what, as we shall see, is known in Chicago 

 University as the quarter system. 



FEMALE STUDENTS. 



The number of female students in Chicago University has increased 

 from year to year. In 1892-93 it was 24 per cent; 1893-94, 33 per 

 cent; 1894-95, 35 per cent; 1895-96, 36 per cent; 1896-97, 37 per 

 cent; 1897-98, 38 per cent: 1898-99, 43 per cent; 1899-1900, 45.5 

 per cent, in a total of 3,183 students, there being 1,449 females and 

 1,734 males." The dean of the women says, in the introduction to a 

 highly interesting annual report,'' that in the University of Chicago 

 these relations are much more simple than in most other institutions 

 for conmion instruction. From the beginning each and every one of 

 the women has stood on the same terms as the men; never in the world 

 was the work of women as scholars less hampered, and nowhere is it 

 easier for women to obtain a university training. The woman student 

 on entering the university is subject to the same rules as the man stu- 

 dent, proceeds in exactl}' the same manner in respect to choice of 

 studies and business relations and shortly finds herself in class room, 

 laboratory, and library, working side by side with men, and with no 

 question as to her right or privilege. 



QUAKTEK SYSTEM WITHOUT VACATIONS. 



Another essential characteristic feature of the University of Chicago 

 is its quarter system almost without vacations, which has introduced 

 an entirely new principle into university instruction, which thus con- 

 tinues on unbroken. The quarter is the unit of reckoning, as is the 

 semester in Germany. The academic year begins on July 1 and is 

 divided into four quarters, which begin respectively on the 1st of 

 July, October, January, and April, and last twelve weeks, there being 



« In the winter semester of 1900-1901 there were at the 21 German univ-ersities 

 among 34,363 students and some 2,000 auditors (summer semester, 1901, 35,552 

 matriculate students), 1,029 women, 12 of whom were matriculate and probably 

 about one-third of whom were foreigners (it was only at Jena that no female students 

 were allowed, but they are now admitted — 1903). In the United States in 1898-99 

 there were 109,659 males and 37,505 females who enjoyed the higher education, of 

 which 18,948 women were at universities and colleges for both sexes, 4,593 at higher 

 women's colleges, and 10,866 at such of lower grade, 1,339 at technical schools, 1,759 

 at professional schools. (Report of Commissioner of Education, 1898-99, II, 1900, 

 p. 1582.) 



b President's report for 1897-98 (1900), pp. 110-135. 



