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fessional courses, of 98,923, of which number 11,874 were in 

 engineering or architectural courses. The report for the year 

 1903-04 gives, as corresponding figures, 118,816 for the total attend- 

 ance and 21,087 for the engineers and architects. In these four 

 years the increase in the total number of students attending college 

 is 20.1 per cent., while for the technical students the increase 

 amounts to 77.6 per cent., nearly four times as great a rate. 



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A study of the enrolment in a few of the prominent engineering 

 colleges brings out certain general features common to all, as well 

 as some diflPerences. These institutions were chosen to represent 

 different sections geographically, and which would therefore repre- 



