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SCIENCE 



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the student will receive the degree of bachelor of 

 science, and at the end of the fifth year an engi- 

 neering degree. This year students are accepted 

 in the beginning work only. In the medical school 

 the admission requirements have been advanced 

 one year. The effect upon attendance has been 

 slight, as the figures are practically the same as 

 those of last year. The only school that shows a 

 decided decrease is the dental school, which feels, 

 for the first time, the full effect of the recent large 

 increase in entrance requirements. The new 

 school of commerce meets with remarkable success. 

 More than 200 students are in the first year of the 

 course. The entire course will extend through 

 three years. 



On the campus at Evanston the Swift hall of 

 engineering is nearing completion. Ground has 

 been broken for a new gymnasium and the founda- 

 tion is nearly completed. This building is the 

 gift of Mr. James A. Patten. It will be of white 

 stone and brick. It will contain a club room and 

 social rooms for men, offices for various student 

 enterprises, a large swimming pool, locker rooms, 

 baths, a large gymnasium room, 87 by 135, of the 

 usual type. A rather unique feature is the " in- 

 door field," which will provide for field sports. 

 This field is a room, 120 feet by 215, clear from 

 supports, and having a dirt fioor surrounded by a 

 ten-lap-mile track of dirt. This room will accom- 

 modate a full-size baseball diamond and two of 

 the three field positions. — Plans for dormitories 

 are under way, but their erection has been held 

 in abeyance. 



Ohio State University reports an increase 

 in the grand total registration of 356, and 

 gains this fall in every department with 

 the exception of law. The college has 

 gained 54 men and 27 women, the scientific 

 schools 72, agriculture 45, veterinary medi- 

 cine 29, the graduate school and domestic 

 science (other courses) 25 each, pharmacy 

 19, forestry 18 and pedagogy 12 students, 

 while law has lost 11. Of the 925 students 

 in the scientific schools, 43 are enrolled in 

 the so-called short course, two years in 

 length, and similarly there are 68 short- 

 course students in agriculture out of 216 

 and 4 in domestic science out of 119. The 

 summer session experienced an increase of 

 78 students. 



Mr. Edward Eobins, assistant secretary 

 of the University of Pennsylvania, has fur- 

 nished the following descriptive material 

 to accompany the figures of this institution : 

 The final figures of registration for the current 

 academic year at the University of Pennsylvania 

 show a substantial and gratifying increase over 

 corresponding figures for the preceding year. The 

 net registration for the entire university is 4,555, 

 an increase of 277, or 6i per cent, over last year. 

 Every department but one has practically equaled 

 or exceeded its registration for the previous year, 

 and in that department additional entrance re- 

 quirements, which operate for the first time this 

 year, have materially affected the total. The 

 college, with an increase of 127 students, now 

 numbers 1,853. The law department has increased 

 from 303 to 326; the department of veterinary 

 medicine from 131 to 150; the graduate school 

 from 336 to 339; the evening school to 272 from 

 223. The dental department's total, 383, is 7 less 

 than last year's figure. The attendance in the 

 college courses for teachers is 352, and may be 

 increased by late registrations during the next 

 few weeks. The summer session of 1908, with an 

 enrollment of 472, exceeded that of 1907 by 110 

 students. The medical department begins the year 

 with 563 students, or 42 less than last year, due 

 largely, as stated above, to a raising of the 

 standard of entrance requirements. Heretofore, 

 the requirements for admission to this department 

 have been equivalent to those prescribed for admis- 

 sion to the freshman class of the college, but for 

 the academic year 1908-9 a knowledge of physics, 

 chemistry and general biology or general zoology 

 and two foreign languages is demanded. Entrance 

 requirements for the next two years will be fur- 

 ther raised so that in 1910-11 candidates must 

 have completed work equivalent to that prescribed 

 for the freshman and sophomore classes in colleges 

 recognized by the university. 



The enrollment of students in the college is 

 distributed by courses as follows, every course 

 sharing in the increased registration of the de- 

 partment: architecture, 168; arts, 323; biology, 

 49; chemistry, 78; chemical engineering, 58; 

 Wharton school of finance and commerce, 463 ; 

 civil engineering, 292 ; mechanical engineering, 

 387; music, 35; total, 1,853. 



Interest in registration figures naturally centers 

 in the freshman class, which this year for the 

 whole university numbers 1,258, an increase of 

 126, or 11 per cent. The college shows an excep- 



