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and Sja^acuse, the number of the under- 

 graduate women is larger than that of the 

 men. Harvard continues to lead in the 

 number of male academic students, being 

 followed by Yale, Princeton, Michigan, 

 Chicago, Wisconsin, Columbia and Minne- 

 sota; including the women, the order would 

 be Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minne- 

 sota, California, Chicago, Syracuse, Tale, 

 Columbia, Kansas and Iowa, each of these 

 institutions enrolling over one thousand 

 academic students. 



A general depression is noticeable in the 

 case of the engineering schools, Stanford 

 being the only institution to exhibit a note- 

 worthy gain, the increase in the case of 

 Illinois, Syracuse, Virginia and Yale being 

 insignificant, Cornell remaining stationary, 

 and every one of the other institutions 

 showing a loss, which in the case of several 

 is quite marked. At Columbia there has 

 been a gain of ten per cent, in new stu- 

 dents, which, however, was not large 

 enough to offset the loss of old students 

 occasioned primarily by increased stand- 

 ards for advancement. Cornell continues 

 to maintain its lead in the number of scien- 

 tific students, Michigan and Illinois being 

 the only other institutions to attract over 

 one thousand students to their schools of 

 engineering; these are followed by Yale, 

 Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Wisconsin, 

 Columbia, Minnesota, Missouri and Ne- 

 braska, each of these universities attracting 

 over five hundred students to their scien- 

 tific schools. 



Thirteen of the medical schools and ten 

 of the law schools exhibit a loss as against 

 last year, while nine of the medical schools 

 and twelve of the law schools have experi- 

 enced an increase in attendance, there being 

 a total loss of 185 students in medicine and 

 of 79 students in law since last year at the 

 institutions included in both this and last 

 year's tables. The largest gains in medi- 



cine have been registered by New York 

 University and Northwestern, in law by 

 Harvard, Ohio and Michigan; the largest 

 losses in the former have been experienced 

 by Michigan and Iowa, in the latter by 

 Minnesota and Yale. The eastern institu- 

 tions show a loss of three students in medi- 

 cine and of eight students in law, whereas 

 the western institutions lost 182 in medi- 

 cine and 71 in law. New York University 

 still attracts the largest number of law 

 students, being followed by Harvard and 

 Michigan, Minnesota, Yale, Pennsylvania, 

 Columbia and Texas, each of these having 

 an enrollment of over three hundred stu- 

 dents. In medicine Northwestern has 

 passed Pennsylvania, these being followed 

 by Illinois, New York University, Tulane, 

 Johns Plopkins, Michigan, Harvard and 

 Columbia, all of these institutions enrolling 

 more than three hundred students. 



The graduate schools experienced an in- 

 crease of 393 students. Harvard being the 

 only institution on the list to show a loss 

 of any moment, the largest gains having 

 been made by Northwestern, Indiana and 

 Columbia. The last named institution, 

 with an enrollment of 991 students (to the 

 797 in the table should be added 194 grad- 

 uate students at Teachers College, who are 

 omitted here for the sake of avoiding the 

 item of double registration ) , has by far the 

 largest graduate school, being followed by 

 Chicago, Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, 

 California, New York University, Wiscon- 

 sin, Cornell and Illinois, each of these in- 

 stitutions enrolling over two hundred non- 

 professional graduate students. It will be 

 observed that six of these institutions are 

 in the east and four in the west. 



All of the schools of agricultiire show a 

 most encouraging increase, the single ex- 

 ception being Minnesota, where the appar- 

 ent decrease of 348 is undoubtedly due to 

 the fact that the students enrolled in the 



