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Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Columbia, Mis- 

 souri, Nebraska and Princeton, eaeb of 

 tbese universities having over five hundred 

 students in attendance on their scientific 

 schools. 



The attendance on the schools of law 

 connected with the universities under con- 

 sideration shows, in general, a fair gain 

 since last year, whereas in the case of the 

 medical schools the gain is only slight; in 

 fact, there are at present no less than ap- 

 proximately eight hundred fewer students 

 of medicine in attendance on the institu- 

 tions credited with medical schools in the 

 tables of both 1908 and 1902, than there 

 were in the latter year, while in the case 

 of the law schools there has been a gain of 

 about five hundred students during the 

 same period. Minnesota, Yale, Columbia 

 and Virginia exhibit the largest increase in 

 law since last year, Indiana,^ Minnesota 

 and Illinois in medicine ; Harvard, Illinois, 

 Indiana,^ Michigan, New York University 

 and Ohio showing losses in law, and Cali- 

 fornia, Cornell, Harvard, Kansas, Mis- 

 souri, Nebraska, New York University, 

 Northwestern, Pennsylvania and Virginia 

 in medicine. New York University still 

 possesses the highest law school enroll- 

 ment, being followed by Michigan, Har- 

 vard, Minnesota, Yale, Pennsylvania, Co- 

 lumbia and Virginia. Of these the Har- 

 vard and Columbia schools are the only 

 ones on a graduate basis. Pennsylvania 

 continues to have the largest medical 

 school, followed by Northwestern, Illinois, 

 Michigan, New York University, Johns 

 Hopkins, Harvard, Columbia and Iowa- 

 Harvard and Johns Hopkins having the 



' The large increase in the school of medicine is 

 accounted for by the consolidation of all the 

 medical schools in Indianapolis and their absorp- 

 tion by Indiana University, while the falling off 

 in the school of law is due to the fact that all 

 the duplicates have been eliminated tliis year, 

 only actual candidates for the law degree being 

 included. 



only graduate schools of medicine among 

 those here mentioned. 



The graduate schools show healthy gains 

 all along the line, with the exception of 

 Indiana, Syracuse, Princeton and Ne- 

 braska, the increase being especially note- 

 worthy at Michigan, California and Illi- 

 nois— all western institutions. Columbia, 

 with an enrollment of 958 students (to the 

 737 in the table should be added 221 

 graduate students at Teachers College, who 

 are omitted here for the sake of avoiding 

 the item of double registration), has by 

 far the largest graduate school, followed 

 by Harvard, Chicago, Yale, Pennsylvania, 

 California and New York University. 



The agricultural schools show a most en- 

 couraging increase, practically without ex- 

 ception, Minnesota this year having an 

 enrollment of over one thousand, being 

 followed by Illinois and Cornell. The 

 schools of architecture have likewise grown, 

 the largest being those connected with 

 Illinois, Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cor- 

 nell. The largest schools of commerce are 

 at New York University and Pennsylvania, 

 and they exhibit a large increase over last 

 year. The dental schools for the most part 

 have suffered a loss, Pennsylvania still 

 having by far the largest number of dental 

 students, being followed by Northwestern. 

 The latter, Chicago and Yale show a 

 slight gain in the nuraber of divinity stu- 

 dents, whereas the enrollment at Harvard 

 has remained stationary. Where the 

 forestry students are listed separately, a 

 small increase is apparent, whereas a num- 

 ber of institutions have registered losses in 

 music, Syracuse, with 690 students, still 

 heading the list in the latter department, 

 followed by Nebraska and Northwestern. 

 Syracuse is the only institution to report a 

 decrease in the number of students of edu- 

 cation, Teachers College of Columbia Uni- 

 versity, with 950 students, continuing to 

 head the list, being followed by New York 



