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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXIX. No. 731 



The University of Illinois shows con- 

 sistent gains in every department, with the 

 exception of music, where there has been a 

 loss of 24 students, of library science 

 ("other courses"), which reports a loss of 

 10 students, of art, where the registration 

 has been reduced from 10 to 4, and of law, 

 where the registration shows a falling off of 

 3 students. The largest gain, one of 68, is 

 in the graduate school, while medicine has 

 gained 48, and the male academic and com- 

 merce each 37. Architecture, pharmacy 

 and dentistry have also gained over 30 stu- 

 dents each. The total increase in the fall 

 enrollment amounts to 247 students, while 

 the summer session was larger by 101 stu- 

 dents than that of 1907. Owing to the fact 

 that the percentage of summer-session stu- 

 dents who returned for work in the fall was 

 considerably greater in 1908 than in the 

 year preceding, the gain in the grand total 

 over last year is only 228. The total regis- 

 tration in 1903 was 3,239, as against 4,400 

 this year, a gain of 35 per cent, in five 

 years. 



The distribution of students by faculties 

 under Indiana University is somewhat dif- 

 ferent from what it was last year, and it 

 is consequently difficult to make accurate 

 comparisons. The loss in law and the gain 

 in medicine have been explained above. 

 There are 9 more women in the academic 

 department than there were last year, while 

 a loss of 66 students in the graduate school 

 is more than offset by a gain of 122 men in 

 the college, but this may be due to the 

 inclusion this year of a number of graduate 

 students in the academic department. The 

 total increase in the fall enrollment is 192, 

 and the summer session exhibits a gain of 

 284, the growth in the grand total being 

 one of 446. 



The State University of Iowa exhibits an 

 increase in every department except that 

 of dentistry, which reports a loss of 16 



students, and those of medicine and music, 

 where the enrollment has remained station- 

 ary. The largest gain is in the academic 

 department, namely, one of 85 men and 

 60 women, whereas the scientific schools 

 have only two more students than last year. 

 Pharmacy has gained 14, law 10, the grad- 

 uate school 11, and the nurses' training 

 schools (other courses) 9, the increase in 

 the entire fall registration being one of 

 158 and in the grand total for the year one 

 of 168, the summer session of 1908 having 

 been slightly larger than that of the pre- 

 ceding year. In the fall of 1903 there were 

 only 1,260 students registered at Iowa, as 

 against 2,356 this year. 



The standards of admission to the law 

 school were raised this fall, inasmuch as 

 no students were permitted to enter who 

 did not present the entire thirty credits or 

 fifteen units, whereas in previous years 

 students were admitted with deficiencies 

 aggregating three credits. Beginning with 

 September, 1909, one full year of college 

 work, in addition to the four years of high 

 school work formerly required, will be de- 

 manded for admission to the school of 

 medicine, and beginning with September, 

 1910, the requirement will be still further 

 increased to two years of college work. 

 Beginning with September, 1909, the re- 

 quirements for admission to the college of 

 dentistry will be advanced to four years of 

 high-school work. No other changes in the 

 standards of admission to the several 

 schools of the university are in immediate 

 contemplation. 



The university has completed during the past 

 year an extension to the engineering building at 

 a cost of about $75,000. The extension duplicates 

 the capacity of the building, and completes the 

 first wing of the engineering quadrangle. A 

 building for the law school is now being erected. 

 This building will cost $125,000, and will be com- 

 pleted in about a year. Both of the buildings 

 mentioned are of Bedford stone, fireproof construc- 

 tion, in accordance with the general plan of the 



