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athletic field for the women of the university. — 

 Another welcome gift is in the form of about 

 fifteen hundred acres of land, the purchase price 

 of which, beyond possibly ten per cent, of the 

 vrlue, was donated to the university, lying along 

 t .e shores of Douglas Lake in Cheboygan County. 

 This land will serve as the site for our summer 

 engineering camp, and its topography, including 

 forest and open, land and water, various eleva- 

 tions, etc., is particularly well adapted to the 

 purpose, and we also look forward to its use as 

 a biological station of importance. In honor of 

 the donor it has been named The Bogardus Engi- 

 neering Camp. — Buildings completed or practically 

 so during the year include the memorial hall, the 

 gift of alumni and other friends, and a new build- 

 ing for the dental college. The latter, erected at 

 a cost of $125,000, is probably responsible in a 

 large part for the increase in our enrollment in 

 the dental college. Contracts have been awarded 

 for a chemical laboratory to cost $245,000 and an 

 addition to our engineering building to cost 

 $75,000. 



The University of Minnesota shows a 

 slight decrease in pharmacy, but has made 

 good gains in all other departments, espe- 

 cially in the schools of agriculture (102), 

 law (99) and medicine (69). The increase 

 in the law school is due to the fact that this 

 is the last year in which students may enter 

 that college upon presentation of a high- 

 school diploma. Beginning with Septem- 

 ber, 1909, all students entering the college 

 of law will be required to have one year of 

 regular academic work in the college of 

 science, literature and the arts. The large 

 growth in medicine is due to the fact that 

 the medical department of Hamline Uni- 

 versity has recently been absorbed by the 

 University of Minnesota, which now con- 

 ducts the only medical school in the state. 

 The college of engineering entered this fall 

 upon the five-year course leading to the 

 degree of B.S. at the end of the fourth, and 

 the professional degree at the completion 

 of the fifth year. The school of mines 

 shows no falling off in enrollment, although 

 the entrance requirements in mathematics 

 were raised this fall. The agricultural 



department has developed rapidly as a re- 

 sult of the impetus given to that line of 

 work throughout the state, larger provision 

 being made for agricultural training than 

 ever before. The academic department 

 shows a net gain of 42 students, namely, a 

 gain of 48 men and a loss of 6 women, the 

 number of women, however, being still far 

 in excess of that of the men. Compared 

 with last fall, there has been an increase in 

 the total of 398 students, and a practically 

 similar gain if the summer session be in- 

 cluded. 



Mr. Irvin Switzler, registrar of the Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, reports as follows : 



The total registration of the present session, 

 shows a relative as well as an absolute increase 

 when compared with preceding sessions. The rate 

 of increase during the two preceding sessions was 

 a trifle less than ten per cent. The registration 

 of the present session exceeds that of the corre- 

 sponding date of 1907 by 284 students, an increase 

 of almost exactly twelve and a half per cent. 

 This increase is found ehiefiy in the college of 

 arts and science, the teachers college, the school 

 of agriculture, the department of law and in the 

 department of journalism, which was inaugurated 

 this session with an enrollment of 60, as indicated 

 in the table under the head of " other courses." — 

 The steady increase which has been noticed in the 

 college of arts and science in preceding sessions 

 has continued, being due to the growing appre- 

 ciation on the part of students of the advantages 

 of college preparation for professional work. The 

 rapid growth of the high schools in Missouri has 

 led to an increased demand for trained teachers. 

 This has contributed to the increase in the 

 teachers college, which has also attracted many 

 superintendents and principals who desire ad- 

 vanced courses. — While the engineering courses 

 show a slight increase, the freshman classes in 

 this department show a decrease, probably due 

 to the effect of the financial depression upon the 

 demand for graduates in engineering. Some who 

 would otherwise have entered the engineering de- 

 partment have taken up agriculture. The regis- 

 tration in this school has also been favorably 

 influenced by the spread of information regarding 

 the importance of scientific training in this field. 

 — The department of law has recovered the ground 

 lost during the preceding session, on account of 



