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SCIENCE 



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of the list hitherto held bj^ Johns Hop- 

 kins. Columbia with 21 degi-ees takes the 

 third place, held last year by Harvard. 

 Pennsylvania, ■with IS degrees, much ex- 

 ceeds any previous year, and Yale and Cor- 

 nell with 16 and 15 degrees, respectively, 

 surpass their records in all but one year. 

 Harvard and Johns Hopkins, on the other 

 hand, show losses. These figures have, 

 however, no considerable significance, as 

 chance fluctuations of this size are likely 

 to occur. The last column shows the per- 

 centages of the degrees which were in the 

 sciences, there being considerable diflier- 

 enees in the different institutions. Thus 

 at Cornell and Johns Hopkins nearly 60 

 per cent, of the degrees are in the sciences, 

 whereas, at Harvard, Tale and Columbia 

 the percentage is about forty. At Clark 

 it is ninety; at New York University it is 

 nine and at Boston Universitv two. 



Chemistry 



Physics 



Zoology , 



Psychology 



Mathematics... 



Botany 



Geology 



Physiology , 



Astronomy 



Paleontology... 

 Bacteriology.... 

 Anthropology. 

 Agriculture.... 



Anatomy 



Engineering ... 



Mineralogy 



Pathology 



Metallurgy 



Geography 



Meteorology... 



32.0 



15.5 



14.7 



13.4 



12.1 



12.6 



7.1 



4.1 



3.4 



1.6 



1.4 



1.0 



1.0 



.9 



.8 



.6 



Total ..123.2 184 1,416 



54 



374 



177 



172 



157 



144 



137 



76 



48 



35 



17 



15 



14 



12 



11 



8 



6 



In Table III. the details for the several 

 sciences are given. Chemistry shows a 

 marked increase over any preceding year 



with as usual about double as many de- 

 grees as physics and zoology. Psychology, 

 mathematics and botany follow closely, and 

 there is then a di-op to geology, physiology 

 and astronomy. As has been noted in pre- 

 vious repoi-ts no strict line can be dra^vn 

 between the natural and exact sciences, on 

 the one hand, and philosophy, history and 

 the languages, etc., on the other. The scien- 

 tific method is increasingly applied in these 

 subjects, and this tendency is probably 

 more evident in the doctors' theses than 

 elsewhere. The number of degi'ees given in 

 these subjects this year was as foUows: 

 History, 32; English, 30; philosophy, 25; 

 economics, 17; Germanic languages, 14; 

 Eomance languages, 12 ; Greek, 13 ; Latin, 

 12 ; Oriental languages, 9 ; political science, 

 9 ; education, 6 : theology, 7 ; sociology, 6 ; 

 law, 1 ; music, 1. 



The institutions which led this year in 

 conferring degrees in the different sciences 

 were as follows: In cheyyiistry, Chicago, 

 Johns Hopkins and Pennsj^lvania, 7 each; 

 in physics, Johns Hopkins 7, Yale 6; in 

 zoology, Chicago 6, Pennsylvania 5; in 

 psychology, Clark 6, Chicago and Colum- 

 bia 5; m botany, Chicago 5; in mathe- 

 matics, Chicago 6, Yale 4; in geology, 

 Yale 3. 



The names of those on whom the degTee 

 was conferred iu the natural and exact 

 sciences, with the subjects of their theses, 

 are as follows: 



TJNIVEESITT OF CHICAGO 



Edith Ethel Barnard : " The Effect of Electro- 

 lytes and Non-electrolytes on the Catalysis of 

 Imido Esters." 



Katharine Blunt: "A Study in Catalysis: The 

 Formation of Amidines." 



Robert Lacey Borger : " On the Determination 

 of Ternary Linear Groups in a Galois Field of 

 Order p'." 



TVilley Denis : " On the Behavior of Various 

 Aldehydes, Ketones and Alcohols toward Oxidizing 

 Agents." 



June Etta Downey : '"' Control Processes in 



