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though several changes have taken place 

 in the distribution of the student body by 

 faculties. The decrease in enrollment in 

 the college (24), the scientific schools (11), 

 and medicine (14), may be attributed to 

 increased requirements for admission that 

 became operative this fall. The gain in 

 the law school is due primarily to the fact 

 that the course becomes one of three years, 

 instead of two, beginning with 1909-10. 

 A number of students transferred from the 

 college to law this fall, in order to com- 

 plete their law course before the new re- 

 quirement goes into effect. The graduate 

 school has remained stationary. A new 

 course has been established in the engineer- 

 ing department leading to the degree of 

 chemical engineer. An additional wing 

 has been provided for the university's hos- 

 pital group of buildings; also a commons 

 hall, which furnishes table board to stu- 

 dents at cost. 



Western Reserve University on October 

 1 incorporated a pharmaceutical school 

 with 75 students, and has gained 27 stu- 

 dents in addition over last year. The 

 academic department shows an increase 

 of 33, all men, while law has gained 9 

 and the library school (other courses) 7 

 students. On the other hand, dentistry 

 shows a loss of 12, the graduate school of 

 5, and medicine of 4 students. The 80 stu- 

 dents mentioned under extension teaching 

 are in attendance on standard university 

 courses given in the evening. 



Mr. D. C. Mathews, executive secretary, 

 writes as follows: 



The opportunities offered by the medical school 

 will be largely increased by the opening of the 

 new H. K. Gushing laboratory of experimental 

 medicine. The department of experimental medi- 

 cine was made possible by the gift of $100,000 

 each by Mr. H. M. Hanna and Colonel Oliver H. 

 Payne. Professor George N. Stewart, formerly of 

 the University of Chicago and recently returned 

 from a year's study in Europe, is head of the 

 department. The building was dedicated on No- 



vember 20, the principal address being delivered 

 by Dr. William H. Welch, of Johns Hopkins 

 University. 



Work is progressing upon the chemical labora- 

 tory on the Adelbert College campus. The build- 

 ing is named for Professor Edward Williams 

 Morley, for thirty-seven years professor of chem- 

 istry in Western Reserve. 



The Cleveland School of Pharmacy was recently 

 incorporated into the university. The school is 

 now in its twenty-seventh year. The course of 

 study includes thorough courses in general, inor- 

 ganic and organic chemistry, physics, pharmacy, 

 materia mediea, microscopy and physiology. It is 

 proposed to give to the course of study certain 

 larger relationships than its merely technical 

 requirements would demand. 



The University of Wisconsin reports an 

 increase of 360 students in the fall enroll- 

 ment, and of 475 in the grand total, the 

 summer session having attracted no less 

 than 376 students more than attended the 

 session of 1907. All of the faculties have 

 contributed to the gain in the fall registra- 

 tion: The academic department 85 men 

 and 42 women, agriculture 72, the scien- 

 tific schools 26, music 14, law 8, medicine 

 6, and pharmacy 4 students. The grad- 

 uate school shows an actual increase of 14- 

 students over last year, although there is 

 an apparent loss of 137. This is due to 

 the fact that the figures for last year in- 

 cluded the graduate students who attended 

 the 1907 summer session and did not re- 

 turn for work in the fall; of these there 

 were 151. This year there were 227 

 graduate students in attendance at the 

 summer session only, so that the total regis- 

 tration of graduate students is 353 for 

 1907 and 443 for 1908. The first item of 

 double registration (151) is made up of 

 114 students enrolled in letters and arts, 

 as well as in law, music and medicine, plus 

 37 students given separately under phar- 

 macy. 



There have recently been established a 

 course in chemistry, a course in mining 

 engineering, and a middle course in agri- 



