Januaet 1, 1909] 



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tional gain of 25 per cent., the enrollment now 

 being 611. The law and veterinary medicine 

 classes, 146 and 63, respectively, have each in- 

 creased ten. The medical and dental departments 

 each show a slight falling off, the registration 

 being 160 and 121, respectively, as against 188 

 and 139 for last year. The evening school enrolls 

 157 regular students, an increase of 29. 



The growth of the university as represented by 

 the foregoing figures is more readily appreciated 

 when a comparison is made with the registration 

 of five years ago. Since 1903 the university has 

 increased its student population 69 per cent. The 

 college, the department of veterinary medicine and 

 courses for teachers have practically doubled their 

 enrollment. The graduate school has increased 

 68 per cent, and the professional schools have 

 increased materially. The evening school of ac- 

 counts and finance and the summer school have 

 sprung into being during this period. The corps 

 of professors, instructors and assistants has been 

 augmented nearly fifty per cent., the total teach- 

 ing force now approximating five hundred. The 

 physical equipment of the university has had valu- 

 able additions in the several years past in the new 

 laboratories and buildings of the departments of 

 medicine, veterinary medicine, engineering and 

 physical education, while the construction of new 

 dormitories enables the university to house seven 

 hundred of its students in these comfortable 

 apartments. 



Princeton University's total is prac- 

 tically the same as that of last year, 1,314 

 in 1908 as against 1,311 in 1907. The 

 academic department lost 24 students and 

 the graduate school 21, whereas the scien- 

 tific school shows a gain of 50 students. 



At Stanford University there has been a 

 net loss in the fall registration of 51 stu- 

 dents, the gain of 33 graduate students, 

 48 law students and 19 women in the 

 academic department not quite offsetting 

 the loss of 151 men in the latter depart- 

 ment (including the scientific school). 

 Mr. 0. L. Elliott, registrar of the univer- 

 sity, writes as follows: 



A tuition fee of twenty-five dollars per semester 

 has been instituted in the department of law, 

 applicable to all students in law not registered 

 in the department on March 6, 1907. (There are 



no tuition fees in other departments of the uni- 

 versity. ) 



The Cooper medical college of San Francisco 

 has been transferred to the university as a free 

 gift, and a department of medicine has been 

 instituted in the university. Instruction will 

 begin in September, 1909. There will be a four- 

 years' course in medicine, preceded by not less 

 than three years of collegiate work. One and a 

 half years of the medical course will be given at 

 Palo Alto, and the remaining two and a half years 

 in San Francisco. 



The falling off in the number of students may 

 be attributed partly to the effects of our dis- 

 ciplinary upheaval last year, and partly to the 

 unusual number of failures in scholarship during 

 the second semester of last year. 



It should be remembered that the num- 

 ber of students at Stanford University is 

 strictly limited. 



Syracuse University reports a gain in 

 the fall total of 41 and in the grand total 

 of 42, the summer session showing a de- 

 crease of 16, but fewer students having re- 

 turned for work this fall than was the case 

 last year. A loss of 53 in pedagogy is 

 offset by a gain of the same number in 

 music; the graduate school has lost 23, 

 while the college has gained 29 and archi- 

 tecture 11. Law, medicine, and the scien- 

 tific schools have remained to all intents 

 and purposes stationary. The entrance re- 

 quirements in medicine have been in- 

 creased, so that next fall one year, and in 

 the fall of 1910 two years, of college work 

 will be demanded for admission, the col- 

 lege work to include a competent course in 

 physics, biology, chemistry, Latin and one 

 modern language. 



The Lyman hall of natural history is 

 now fully occupied by the departments of 

 biology, geology and mineralogy, and 

 botany, while the work in chemistry has 

 been transferred to Bo-nme Hall. The 

 gymnasium will be ready for occupancy at 

 the opening of the second half-year. 



The attendance at the University of Yir- 

 ginia is exactly the same as last fall, al- 



