January 1, 1909] 



SCIENCE 



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regents, and in their location the regents have 

 followed the plan of the ultimate campus, which 

 has been prepared by landscape architects. 



Johns Hopkins University has gained 47 

 students since last year, of whom 30 are 

 found in medicine and 17 in the graduate 

 school, the academic department having 

 remained stationary. In 1902 there were 

 162 students in the college (166 in 1908), 

 829 in medicine (1908: 355) and 179 in 

 the graduate school (1908: 177). 



The scientific schools ( — 10), medicine 

 ( — 9) and art ( — 3) have suffered slight 

 losses at the University of Kansas, which 

 are much more than offset by gains in the 

 other departments, the academic depart- 

 ment alone contributing an increase of 106 

 students— 77 women and 29 men. Law has 

 gained 22, music 19, pharmacy 8 and the 

 graduate school 12, the total increase in the 

 fall registration being 108. The summer 

 session enrolled 89 students more than that 

 of 1907, the increase in the grand total 

 being one of 154 students. 



The University of Michigan reports an 

 increase in the fall registration of 148 stu- 

 dents, law alone exhibiting a loss (41 stu- 

 dents), while medicine has remained uni- 

 form. The academic department has regis- 

 tered a net gain of 45, this figure represent- 

 ing an increase of 47 men and a decrease 

 of two women. The graduate school has 

 gained 65 students, the scientific schools 28, 

 dentistry 23 and pharmacy 7. The summer 

 session was slightly larger than that of the 

 preceding year, but the number of those 

 enrolled both in the summer term and the 

 regular college year was considerably 

 smaller, resulting in an increase in the 

 grand total of 235 students. The attend- 

 ance at Michigan passed the five-thousand 

 mark for the first time this year, it having 

 reached 4,000 in 1904. Mr. Shirley W. 

 Smith, secretary of the university, has sub- 

 mitted the following items of general in- 

 terest : 



The session of the summer of 1908 for the 

 academic department was for the first time in our 

 experience fixed at eight weeks instead of six, and 

 the fee was raised from $15 to $20. The fact that 

 this change was followed by an increase in attend- 

 ance of thirteen per cent., which increase w. s 

 largely made up of those not enrolled in the regu- 

 lar session, is interesting as showing the demand 

 by teachers for the largest opportunity for actual 

 summer work. 



Our engineering faculty have made provision 

 for a six-year course, by the completion of which 

 students will secure a broader foundation of 

 general culture and larger technical attainments. 

 We shall look forward with interest to see whether 

 these increased opportunities will meet a real de- 

 mand in the education of young men preparing for 

 the active life of to-day. 



In our law department we have sought to en- 

 courage and to recognize the superior equipment 

 of those who combine academic with legal train- 

 ing, and have established the degree of J.D. (juris 

 doctor) to be conferred upon certain college grad- 

 uates completing the full three years' law course. 

 The age of admission to the first year class of the 

 law department has been raised from eighteen to 

 nineteen years, with a corresponding higher age 

 requirement for the two upper classes. 



In the material equipment, our most important 

 additions are as follows : An extensive addition 

 has been made to the observatory building, in- 

 cluding a new dome 40 feet in diameter. We are 

 installing a large reflecting telescope which is now 

 approaching completion. This instrument has 

 been designed especially for photographic and 

 spectroscopic work, and it is arranged for use 

 either as a Newtonian or as a Cassegrain reflector. 

 When used in the latter manner, the mirrors give 

 a three-fold magnification with an equivalent focal 

 length of 60 feet. — We have acquired by gift of 

 an alumnus and from the city of Ann Arbor a 

 tract of land of about ninety acres to serve as a 

 botanical garden and arboretum. This land has 

 an exceptional variety of soil, elevation and ex- 

 posure, including a border of over one half mile 

 on the Huron River, and the tract is easily access- 

 ible from the campus. The opportunities for the 

 study of landscape gardening by our students in 

 engineering, architecture, forestry, and general 

 culture, as well as those in botany and landscape 

 gardening proper, are considerably extended by 

 this gift. — The Woman's League of the university 

 has purchased a seven-acre tract of land, very con- 

 venient of access, which will be developed as an 



