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cational institutions as affecting both 

 their entrance requirements and their own 

 grade of work. Whether as cause or effect 

 there has also accompanied this wonderful 



growth a remarkable broadening of cur- 

 riculum and quite a complete change of 

 emphasis on what constitute the essential 

 factors of higher training. 



TABIiE n 



Ratios of Attendance of Various Courses at the German Universities, Technical 

 and Professional Colleges 



Unless otherwise stated, the numbers are for matriculated students only. The ratios are for 

 matriculates. 



Population: 1869: 40,805,000; 1905, 60,314,000. Ratio: 1905/1869, 1.5. 



' Population from " World's Almanac — 1908." 

 ' Includes both sexes in colleges, universities, 



technical and professional schools, exclusive of 



preparatory departments, 1905-6. 

 ' Original data not segregated. 



" Universities only. Figures taken from Sci- 

 ence, September 25, 1908, for 1907. 



° Includes universities, technical and profes- 

 sional schools above gymnasial rank, 1905-6. 



