Januabt 1, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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can not live for a year upon half of their 

 present salaries to secure eight months' 

 absence once in seven years on full salary. 

 During the year the statutes were also 

 amended in order to establish the new 

 grade of associate, ranking below the grade 

 of adjunct professor and above that of 

 instructor. It is to be employed "in the 

 case of an officer of instruction who is not 

 expected to devote the greater part of his 

 time to the service of the university, but 

 to give statedly a limited amount of in- 

 struction upon a special subject." 



A system of academic advisers was put 

 in operation in Columbia College last 

 spring, "by the terms of which each under- 

 graduate student is assigned to the over- 

 sight and care of an officer of instruction, 

 who becomes his guide and friend as well 

 as his teacher. By frequent personal 

 meetings and conferences, it is the duty of 

 the adviser to keep himself closely informed 

 of the progress and academic life of each 

 of the small group of students assigned to 

 him and to give to such students the counsel 

 and direction which they need, not only in 

 regard to their studies but in regard to all 

 phases of their undergraduate activity and 

 life." 



The requirements for admission to the 

 medical school were recently revised, "so 

 that, from and after July 1, 1910, the 

 minimum requirement will be the comple- 

 tion of not less than two full years of study 

 in an approved college or scientific school, 

 which course must have included instruc- 

 tion in the elements of physics, in organic 

 chemistry and in biology." 



Cornell University reports a gain of 407 

 in the grand total, to which the fall enroll- 

 ment has contributed 368, the summer ses- 

 sion showing an increase of 86 in actual 

 number of students. All of the faculties 

 have experienced an increase this fall with 

 the exception of medicine, where increased 



standards for admission have resulted in a 

 reduction of the attendance by 109. The 

 academic registration and the engineering 

 enrollment both show a gain of 94 students, 

 agriculture one of 69, architecture of 30, 

 law of 23, the graduate school of 41. The 

 students listed under "other courses" are 

 taking the short winter course in agricul- 

 ture, and there are 114 more of these than 

 there were last year. Of the 1,727 engi- 

 neering students, 1,158 are registered under 

 mechanical and 569 under civil engineering. 



Harvard University's grand total is to 

 all intents and purposes equal to that of 

 last year, but there has been a loss of 37 

 in the total fall enrollment. The loss of 

 37 men in the college is offset by a gain of 

 34 women in Radcliffe, the scientific school 

 suffered a decrease for the reason explained 

 in full last year, the law school has lost 26 

 students, the graduate school of arts and 

 sciences has gained 18, while medicine, 

 dentistry and divinity have remained prac- 

 tically stationary. The summer session of 

 1908 was larger by 224 students than that 

 of the previous year, and there has been a 

 gain of 61 in the number of instructors. 

 Of the extension students, 1,119 are regis- 

 tered in courses offered at the Lowell Insti- 

 tute by Harvard instructors, and in the 

 case of qualified candidates, counting to- 

 wards a Harvard degree. 



The new graduate school of business ad- 

 ministration attracted 56 students; it fur- 

 nishes a two-years' course leading to the 

 degree of master in business administra- 

 tion. The Bussey Institution has ceased to 

 exist as an undergraduate department for 

 instruction in practical agriculture, the 

 Bussey fund being now devoted to ad- 

 vanced instruction in problems relating to 

 agriculture, such as economic entomology, 

 animal heredity, experimental plant mor- 

 phology and comparative pathology of 

 animals. 



