December 25, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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Comparing this with the order for 1908, 

 we observe that Columbia now heads the 

 list, having changed places with Harvard, 

 Pennsylvania has passed Illinois, Wiscon- 

 sin and California have passed Tale, and 

 Indiana has passed Kansas. Omitting the 

 sum m er session enrollment, the order is, of 

 course, somewhat different, namely, Mich- 

 igan, Columbia, Minnesota, Harvard, Cor- 

 nell, Pennsylvania, Illinois, New York 

 University, Yale, Wisconsin, California, 

 Syracuse, Northwestern, Nebraska, Chi- 

 cago, Ohio, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Stan- 

 ford, Indiana, Princeton, Western Reserve, 

 Virginia, Johns Hopkins— Columbia and 

 Minnesota having passed Harvard, Cornell 

 having passed Pennsylvania, New York 

 University having passed Yale, California 

 having changed places with Syracuse, 

 Northwestern with Nebraska, and Missouri 

 with Iowa. 



Considering in order the various facul- 

 ties, we find first, that so far as the under- 

 graduate academic department is con- 

 cerned, there has been a general increase 

 of men as well as of women, the actual and 

 percentage gains being larger in the case 

 of the male than in that of the female 

 students. Chicago, Harvard, Princeton, 

 Stanford, Virginia and Yale have experi- 

 enced losses in the number of male 

 academic students, while California, Mich- 

 igan, Minnesota, Nebraska and North- 

 western — all western institutions— have 

 fewer academic women students than they 

 had last year. At more than half of the 

 western institutions there are more women 

 than men in the academic department, the 

 exceptions being Chicago, Indiana, Michi- 

 gan, Missouri, Ohio, Western Reserve and 

 Wisconsin. In all of the eastern institu- 

 tions, on the other hand, with the possible 

 exception of Cornell and Syracuse, who do 

 not separate their academic registration 

 into two divisions, the number of men is 

 considerably in excess of that of women. 



In spite of a large growth this year in the 

 number of men, Wisconsin still has fewer 

 than it had in 1904, while the number of 

 women is larger by 180. Comparing the 

 total academic enrollment — men and 

 women— for 1908 with that for 1902 in 

 the case of those institutions which are in- 

 cluded in the tables of both years, we find 

 that there has been a loss in numbers at 

 Chicago, Indiana, Nebraska, Pennsylvania 

 and Princeton, while the largest gains in 

 the academic division during the same 

 period have been made by Syracuse, Wis- 

 consin, Michigan, Missouri, Northwestern, 

 Minnesota and Columbia. The scientific 

 students were groiiped with the academic 

 students at California and Stanford in 

 1902, and consequently no comparisons can 

 be made for these institutions. The 

 largest number of male academic students 

 is still found at Harvard, which is fol- 

 lowed by Yale, Michigan, Wisconsin, Chi- 

 cago, Columbia, Princeton, Minnesota, 

 whereas if the women be included the order 

 would be Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 Minnesota, Chicago, California, Syracuse, 

 Yale, Columbia, Iowa— each of these en- 

 rolling over one thousand academic stu- 

 dents. 



The only institutions that have regis- 

 tered a decrease in the number of scientific 

 students are Harvard, Kansas, Nebraska 

 and Virginia, and of these the first men- 

 tioned is the only one that shows a loss as 

 compared with 1902, of course owing to 

 the fact that the baccalaureate degree is 

 now required for admission to the Harvard 

 engineering schools. The gain in this field 

 since 1902 is in several instances quite re- 

 markable, e. g., from 597 to 1,352 at 

 Michigan. The largest number of scien- 

 tific students is still found at Cornell ; 

 Michigan and Illinois being the only others 

 that attract over one thousand students to 

 their scientific schools; these are followed 

 by Yale, Ohio State, Wisconsin, California, 



