December 24, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



905 



quired for admission. Last year the total regis- 

 tration in law was 014. This year it is 376. The 

 increase of 131 in the freshman class of the college 

 arts is undoubtedly directly related to this in- 

 crease in the entrance requirements for admission 

 to law. 



In 1008-9 the registration in the college of 

 medicine and surgery was considerably increased 

 by the amalgamation of the Ilamline University 

 medical department with that of the University 

 of Jlinncsota, reaching 253. This year the regis- 

 tration has fallen to 176, due partly to the gradu- 

 ation of a number of the transferred Hamline 

 students, and partly to the fact that the number 

 who would naturally enter the freshman class of 

 the Hamline medical department direct from the 

 high school would be required to complete two 

 years of college work in arts liefore gaining admis- 

 sion to the freshman medical class here. 



The college of engineering shows a decrease in 

 registration of 75, probably due to the lengthen- 

 ing of the course from four to five years. There 

 are 612 students enrolled in the school of agricul- 

 ture at the present time. While this school is 

 not doing work of college grade, it is, on the other 

 hand, not in any sense a preparatory school, but 

 offers a three-year technical course. The regis- 

 tration figures for the short courses in agricul- 

 ture, such as the teachers' summer school, the 

 summer forestry school, the farmers' short course 

 and the dairy school, amounting last year to 485, 

 can not be given at this time. 



The regLstration at the University of 

 MissouH shows a slight increase over last 

 year, but the gain is due almost entirely 

 to the summer session. The fact that the 

 regular session fails to maintain the rate 

 of increase of preceding sessioas is due to 

 a number of causes. Chief among these is 

 the establishment of tuition fees in the 

 schools of law, medicine, engineering and 

 journalism and for non-residents in all 

 departments. The registration in individ- 

 ual departments has also been affected by 

 regulations adopted for the reduction of 

 double registration which has been reduced 

 one half, and will be still further reduced 

 during next session. As noted, last year 

 the registration in the school of medicine 

 was affected by uncertainty regarding 



plans for removing the last two years of 

 the course to St. Louis or Kansas City. It 

 was finally decided to discontinue tempo- 

 rarily the work of these years. The de- 

 crease in the school of education is only an 

 apparent one, being due to the fact that 

 beginning with this session two years of 

 college work are required for admission to 

 this school. The college of agriculture con- 

 tinues to show the largest increase in regis- 

 tration. 



The TJniversiiy of Nebraska shows a gain 

 of 200 in the fall enrollment and of 54 in 

 the summer .session. There has been a 

 large increase (193) in the male academic 

 department, apparently at the expense of 

 the scientific schools (—107), but this is 

 due to the fact that the "general scientific" 

 .students are now included under arts, 

 whereas they were formerly registered in 

 the indastrial college. The college of arts 

 and sciences will hereafter grant the degree 

 of bachelor of science, as well as that of 

 bachelor of arts. There is a loss in the 

 number of undergraduate women, probably 

 due to transfers to the teachers college. 

 The number of entrance points has been 

 increased from 28 to 30, the new regulation 

 to become operative on September 1, 1910. 



New York University has a loss of 63 in 

 the summer and of 33 in the fall enroll- 

 ment. The chief losses in the present term 

 are found in the schools of law, education 

 and engineering, which gains in medicine 

 and male undergraduates were not quite 

 able to overcome. 



Owing to the large first item of double 

 registration, it Ls difficult to draw accurate 

 conclasions concerning the changes in at- 

 tendance on the different faculties of 

 Northwestern University. The school of 

 divinity and the male college department 

 seem to be the onlj-^ faculties to have suf- 

 fered a less, entries being made for the 

 first time under the engineering school and 



