December 24, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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short course were included last year but 

 omitted this year. In spite of this fact, 

 Minnesota remains at the head of the list 

 so far as attendance is concerned, being 

 followed by Illinois and Cornell, as last 

 year.— Illinois, Pennsylvania and Cornell 

 exhibit gains in architectural students, in 

 the order named, while Columbia and Syra- 

 cuse have remained stationary. The four 

 largest schools are those of Illinois, Penn- 

 sylvania, Cornell and Columbia.— North- 

 western, California, Pennsylvania and 

 Harvard have registered an increase in 

 their schools of commerce, Illinois and New 

 York University .showing a very slight loss. 

 The la.st named institution and Pennsyl- 

 vania maintain the largest schools.— The 

 dental schools, which last j-ear for the most 

 part suffered a loss, have made encouraging 

 advances, Iowa being the sole exception, 

 and the decrease in her case is slight. 

 Northwestern and Pennsylvania registered 

 the largest gains. From the standpoint of 

 attendance on the dental schools the uni- 

 versities rank in the order Pennsylvania, 

 Northwestern, Michigan, Minnesota. — Only 

 four of the institutions on the list, that is, 

 only one seventh, support divinity schools, 

 the eastern universities, Harvard and Yale, 

 showing a gain, the western universities, 

 Chicago and Northwestern, a loss. The 

 latter institution has the largest attendance 

 on this particular faculty.- The forestry 

 students are in several instances not listed 

 separately; wherever they are, an increase 

 is apparent, except at Ohio, the loss there 

 being a small one.— Nebraska, North- 

 western and Syracuse attract the largest 

 number of students of music, and are the 

 only institutions that registered an increase 

 in this department, Columbia's attendance 

 having remained stationarj'.— Missouri, 

 New York University and Syracuse have 

 fewer students of pedagog>' than they had 

 last year, the Teachers College of Columbia 



University leading in enrollment, with 

 Pennsylvania, New York University, Ne- 

 braska, Texas and Missouri following in 

 the order given. The 544 students men- 

 tioned under pedagogy at the University 

 of Pennsylvania are enrolled in cour.ses 

 for teachers.— Northwestern, California, 

 Columbia and Nebraska have made gains 

 in pharmacy, "Wisconsin has remained sta- 

 tionarj' and all of the other institutions 

 show losses in this field. Columbia con- 

 tinues to maintain the largest school of 

 pharmacy and Northwestern has passed 

 Illinois.— Ohio, Pennsylvania and Cornell 

 attract the largest number of .students of 

 veterinary medicine and all three have 

 made slight gains, New York University 

 having remained to all intents and pur- 

 poses stationary. 



Two thirds of the institutions experi- 

 enced an increase in their summer session 

 enrollment, the most significant gains hav- 

 ing been secured by Columbia and Chicago. 

 The latter attracted over three thousand 

 students to its summer quarter, Columbia 

 drew almost two thou.sand to its summer 

 session, and Haiward, Michigan, Indiana 

 and Wisconsin all had over one thousand 

 .students. The Columbia figures are exclu- 

 sive of students registered at Camp Colum- 

 bia, IMorris, Conn., for summer work in 

 surveying or geodesy. In connection with 

 the summer session it must be borne in 

 mind that all of the summer students are 

 not of college grade, but no detailed figures 

 on this point are available. 



The New England colleges for women 

 have fared better than those for men and 

 those for both sexes. Smith, Wellesley and 

 ilt. Ilolyoke all .showing gains over last 

 year, whereas Dartmouth, Brown, the Uni- 

 versity of Maine, xVmherst, Tufts (college 

 only) and Bowdoin show losses, the Massa- 

 chusetts Institute of Technologj', We.sleyan 

 and "Williams having registered an increase 



