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over last year. Vassar and Bryn Mawr, 

 Lehigh and Lafayette and Oberlin (college 

 only) also exhibit a gain in attendance, 

 while Purdue and Haverford show a slight 

 loss. All of the institutions just men- 

 tioned, with the exception of Brown, Bryn 

 Mawr and the Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology, show an increase as compared 

 with five years ago, the figures in detail 

 being as follows: 



Institution 



Amherst 



Bowdoin 



Brown 



Bryn Mawr 



Dartmoutb 



Haverford 



Lafayette 



Lehigh 



Massachusetts Inst, of Tech, 



Mount Holyoke 



Oberlin (college only) 



Purdue 



Smith 



Tufts (college only) 



University of Maine 



Vassar 



Wellesley — 



Wesleyan 



Williams 



412 

 363 

 988 

 441 

 926 

 146 

 422 

 609 



1,561 

 674 

 652 



1,359 



1,067 

 375 

 563 

 979 



1,050 

 305 

 443 



The failing off in the number of under- 

 graduates at Brown may be attributed to 

 increased entrance requirements demanded 

 of candidates for engineering degrees. Of 

 the 1,197 students enrolled at Darmouth, 

 1,112 are in the college, 57 in the medical 

 school, 50 in the Thayer school and 35 in 

 the Tuck school. At Oberlin the total 

 registration, including in addition to the 

 college the theological seminary, the con- 

 servatory of music, the academy and the 

 students in drawing and painting, is 1,798, 

 as against 1,748 in 1908 and 1,505 in 1904. 

 The Purdue figures represent the total 

 registration in the four classes in the 

 schools of agriculture, chemical engineer- 

 ing, civil engineering, electrical engineer- 

 ing, mechanical engineering and science, 

 the two classes in the school of pharmacy, 



together with special and graduate students 

 in the university as a whole; no entry is 

 made for the agricultural winter course, 

 since this does not open- until January. 

 At Tufts the medical and dental schools 

 show an attendance of 717, a gain of 36 

 over last year and of 108 over 1904, the 

 total attendance for the three years in 

 question being 1,145, 1,115 and 1,004, re- 

 spectively. The slight decrease in enroll- 

 ment at the University of Maine is prob- 

 ably due to increased standards of admis- 

 sion and to the increase in tuition for stu- 

 dents who come from outside the state of 

 Maine. At Vassar an effort is made to 

 keep the total number down to approxi- 

 mately a thousand. The excess this year 

 is owing to the fact that an unusually large 

 number of former students returned in 

 September, while the falling off among the 

 new students was smaller than usual during 

 the summer. At "Wesleyan the chief gain 

 has been experienced in the freshman class, 

 which is the largest in the history of the 

 college. There has been a total gain of 21 

 students, in spite of the fact that a con- 

 siderable number of the women students 

 left this year by reason of the recent action 

 of the trustees abolishing coeducation;- 

 there are at present only 19 women stu- 

 dents enrolled. 



Taking up the various institutions in 

 alphabetical order, we find that the 

 University of California shows gains in 

 every department with the exception of 

 engineering, the most substantial increase 

 being found in the number of under- 

 graduate women, namely, one of 116 stu- 

 dents. Of the 337 students in the grad- 

 uate school about 160 are women, most of 

 whom are candidates for the teacher's 

 recommendation. The graduate school 

 also includes 14 candidates for the degree 

 of juris doctor, which is conferred two 

 years after the A.B. or the LL.B. 



