Deoembeb 25, 1908] 



SCIENCE 



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University and Missouri. All of the 

 schools of pharmacy, with the exception of 

 that of Illinois, have experienced satis- 

 factory gains in attendance, Columbia now 

 having the largest enrollment, with Illinois 

 second and Northwestern third. Ohio 

 State and Pennsylvania report gains in 

 veterinary medicine, these being the two 

 largest schools. 



Northwestern, Stanford and Syracuse 

 are the only institutions that experienced 

 a loss of students in the summer session of 

 1908, the Tale summer courses having been 

 withdrawn this year. In some instances, 

 the growth has been quite noteworthy, for 

 example at Wisconsin, where no less than 

 1,027 students were enrolled, as against 

 651 in 1907, and at Indiana, which re- 

 ported an increase from 721 to 1,005. In 

 addition to Chicago, the following institu- 

 tions attracted over one thousand students 

 last summer, ranking numerically in the 

 order given : Columbia, Harvard, Michi- 

 gan, Wisconsin and Indiana. The stu- 

 dents taking summer work in surveying, 

 geodesy or mining are not included in the 

 Columbia figures. 



The eastern colleges for men and those 

 for women included in the writer's geo- 

 graphical distribution statistics^ all report 

 gains in the fall registration over last year, 

 with the single exception of Bryn Mawr. 

 The Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

 shows an increase from 1,415 to 1,462, 

 Purdue one from 1,518 to 1,534. Simi- 

 larly Bowdoin has grown from 394 to 419, 

 the loss in medicine occasioned by an in- 

 crease in standards being more than offset 

 by gains in the collegiate department, Am- 

 herst from 513 to 525, Dartmouth from 

 1,219 to 1,233 (the academic department 

 from 1,131 to 1,136), Brown from 924 to 

 995 (the academic department from 661 to 

 727), Wesleyan from 316 to 319, Lehigh 

 from 655 to 664, Wellesley from 1,209 to 

 = Science, October 30, 1908. 



1,281, Smith from 1,482 to 1,561, Mt. 

 Holyoke from 711 to 746, and Vassar from 

 996 to 1,014, while Bryn Mawr has 

 registered a decrease from 407 to 395. 

 Comparing the enrollment of these institu- 

 tions with that for November 1, 1903, we 

 note a slight loss in attendance at Wesleyan 

 (3 per cent.), Massachusetts Institute of 

 Technology (4 per cent), and Bryn Mawr 

 (7 per cent.), while gains have been made 

 in the following order : Smith, 51 per cent. ; 

 Dartmouth, 42 per cent. ; Wellesley, 31 per 

 cent.; Purdue, 29 per cent.; Amherst, 28 

 per cent.; Bowdoin, 14 per cent.; Mt. 

 Holyoke, 11 per cent. ; Lehigh, 10 per cent. ; 

 Vassar, 9 per cent., and Brown, 6 per cent. 

 In the case of the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology, the relatively large registra- 

 tion in 1903 (1,528) was due to the un- 

 usually heavy enrollment in the class of 

 1906, which entered immediately before 

 the increase in entrance requirements and 

 in tuition fees became operative. During 

 the past ten years the percentage of stu- 

 dents entering the Massachusetts Institute 

 of Technology from other colleges has 

 grown from 6 to 13 per cent. At Bryn 

 Mawr the decrease in numbers is accounted 

 for by the facts that the fees for board 

 were increased from $175 to $200 in 1907 

 and that the charge for tuition for under- 

 graduate students was increased by $50 in 

 1903. It has been the policy of the board 

 of directors to limit the attendance to the 

 number which can be accommodated in the 

 halls of residence, and for the last year or 

 two the enrollment has been within forty 

 of that number. The entering class at 

 Dartmouth is smaller than it was last year, 

 owing to the financial stringency of the 

 past year. At Mount Holyoke the in- 

 crease in registration is due to the larger 

 number of rooms at the disposal of stu- 

 dents, the number accepted each year being 

 determined by the accommodations avail- 

 able on the campus and in the village. At 



