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TABLE X. THE NUMBEB OF SCIENTIFIC MEN CON- 

 NECTED WITH INSTITUTIONS WHEN THESE 

 ABE THBEE OB MOBE 



atively more prominent position to science 

 than the older institutions and have selected 

 better men. At certain other institutions the 

 ratios are: Yale, 10.6; Michigan, 12.3; Wis- 

 consin, 13.2; Columbia, 13.3; Cornell, 16.5; 

 California, 21.3; Pennsylvania, 25.2. The in- 

 stitutions having more than forty instructors 

 to one scientific man of standing are George 

 Washington, Pittsburgh, Tufts, Tulane, Syra- 

 cuse, Northwestern, Indiana and Cincinnati. 

 These differences are truly remarkable and 

 should be widely known in the interest of 

 scientific education and the advancement of 

 science. Institutions differ in the relative 

 strengths of their departments, but it will be 

 found that those which have men of distinc- 

 tion in the natural and exact sciences also 

 have such men in other subjects. Students 

 should' certainly use every effort to attend in- 

 stitutions having large proportions of men of 

 distinction among their instructors. It will 

 be ordinarily the case that in such institu- 

 tions the younger instructors are also of 

 higher standing. Scientific men, especially 

 those beginning their careers, should try to 

 accept positions only where the higher stand- 

 ards obtain. 



In general the institutions which have a 

 large proportion of scientific men of distinc- 

 tion among their instructors will also have a 

 large number in comparison with the student 

 attendance. But institutions vary greatly in 

 the number of students for each instructor 

 from 3.9 at the Johns Hopkins to 18.1 at 

 Chicago. 10 For each scientific man among the 

 thousand, the numbers of students are : Clark, 

 18; Johns Hopkins, 22; Harvard, 49; Bryn 

 Mawr, 52; the Massachusetts Institute, 58; 

 Princeton and Stanford, 80; Yale, 90; Co- 

 lumbia, 97. These are the institutions which 

 have at least one scientific instructor of dis- 

 tinction for each hundred students. The in- 

 stitutions not having one such instructor for 

 five hundred students are Syracuse, Texas, 

 Nebraska and George Washington. 



"These remarkable differences are confirmed by 

 the report from the Carnegie Foundation, which 

 gives the ratios as 3.7 and 17.4. 



