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Cornell, California and Minnesota, each 

 one of these having gained over four hun- 

 dred students ; omitting the summer session 

 attendance, the largest increases have been 

 registered by Colvimbia, Minnesota, Cor- 

 nell, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio, in the order given, the 

 growth in each case being one of more than 

 three hundred students. Comparing this 

 year's grand totals with those of 1902, we 



ment. The largest gains during this 

 period have been made by Pennsylvania, 

 New York University, Illinois, Michigan, 

 Cornell, Columbia, Syracuse, Minnesota, 

 Missouri, Ohio and Iowa, each of these uni- 

 versities showing an increase of over one 

 thousand students, an increase in which the 

 establishment of summer sessions plays no 

 small role in several instances. 



According to the figures for 1907, the 



* Includes schools of mines, engineering, chemistry and related departments. 



■j- Included elsewhere. 



§ The attendance on the 188 courses given during the past year was 53,841. 



find that Harvard and Princeton are 

 the only institutions that exhibit a 

 loss in registration during the inter- 

 vening period, but the higher educa- 

 tion of this country would suffer no de- 

 terioration if more of our institutions 

 would only copy Harvard's standards at 

 the risk of quantitative losses in enroU- 



twenty-four universities included in the 

 table ranked as follows: Harvard, Co- 

 lumbia, Michigan, Chicago, Cornell, Min- 

 nesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York 

 University, Yale, Wisconsin, California, 

 Syracuse, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio, 

 Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Indiana, Stanford, 

 Princeton, Virginia, Johns Hopldns. 



