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Ohio State (386). Last year there were seven 
institutions that showed a gain of over three 
hundred students, California and Columbia 
being among the number. Omitting the 
summer session attendance, the largest gains 
have been made by Cornell (807), Ohio (282), 
Illinois (241), Columbia (223), Michigan 
(132), New York University (118) and Vir- 
ginia (116). It will thus be seen that this 
year only four institutions exhibit an in- 
crease of over two hundred students in the 
fall attendance, as against seven in 1910 and 
eleven in 1909. 
According to the figures for 1910, the 
twenty-seven universities included in the 
table ranked as follows: Columbia, Chicago, 
Michigan, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cornell, 
Minnesota, California, Wisconsin, Illinois, 
New York University, Nebraska, Northwest- 
ern, Yale, Syracuse, Ohio State, Missouri, 
Texas, Kansas, Indiana, Tulane, Iowa, Stan- 
ford, Princeton, Western Reserve, Johns 
Hopkins, Virginia. Comparing this with the 
order for 1911, and leaving Minnesota and 
Nebraska out of consideration, we find that 
Columbia continues to maintain its long lead, 
that California has passed from the eighth to 
the second place, that Cornell has passed from 
the sixth to the third place, that Michigan and 
Harvard have each dropped down one place, 
Pennsylvania two places, and Chicago four, 
and that Wisconsin and Illinois have advanced 
a place owing to the change in the Minnesota 
figures. The balance of the institutions now 
rank in the following order: New York Uni- 
versity, Ohio State, Northwestern, Syracuse, 
Yale, Nebraska, Missouri, Texas, Kansas, 
Indiana, Tulane, Iowa, Stanford, Princeton, 
Western Reserve, Johns Hopkins, Virginia. 
California is the seventh and Wisconsin the 
eighth institution to pass the five thousand 
mark. Jf the summer session enrollment be 
omitted, the universities in the table rank in 
size as follows: Columbia, Cornell, Michigan, 
Harvard, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota, 
California, Wisconsin, New York University, 
Northwestern, Yale, Syracuse, Ohio State, 
Chicago, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, 
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Iowa, Stanford, Princeton, Indiana, Western 
Reserve, Tulane, Virginia and Johns Hopkins, 
the order of the first ten institutions last year 
on this basis being Columbia, Minnesota, 
Michigan, Pennsylvania, Harvard, Cornell, 
Illinois, California, Wisconsin, New York 
University. 
The detailed statistics by faculties will 
hereafter be given in the spring, in order that 
the final figures for the year may be provided 
instead of the preliminary registration only. 
The number of students entering in the sec- 
ond term at the larger institutions is growing 
constantly, and as a result the final enroll- 
ment frequently shows a considerable increase 
over that of November first. The changes in 
attendance, equipment, ete., will also be sub- 
mitted at that time. 
The fall enrollment at a number of promi- 
nent colleges (for men and for women) and 
schools of technology is given in the follow- 
ing table: 
Institution November 1 1911 1910 1904 
Amherst eseccsscceseeecsesesseencnces 464} 502) 412 
Brown (incl. graduate school)...| 933] 930] 988 
Bryn Mawr (incl. graduate 
SCHOO!) \Recmetee ee seone cease 440| 409} 441 
Dartmouth (incl. eng., med., 
grad., stud., and commerce)...| 1,385 | 1,229} 926 
TEEN ETHIOI RE bs conooneenooggeoecoDgc00000000 164} 150] 146 
TER NTA aovomponosaceegse9e07609009590000 599} 616] 609 
Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 
nology.......-... Senne oG6s008 1,506 | 1,561 
Mount Holyoke.............. 743 | 674 
JET coosccosanesoossobeccodsc 1,611 | 1,359 
Suoit here eeeeeeeereceereseeee 1,618 | 1,067 
Wellesley ..........--.ceeees08+ au 1,378 | 1,050 
iWresleyamiersesteeeeceeeeecosccceetiass 365 | 305 
Willliamssresctesencercenccceneececses 53831 541] 443 
RupotFr Tomso, JR. 
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 
Proressor Epwarp ©. Pickrrine, director 
of the Harvard College Observatory, has been 
elected president of the American Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, to pre- 
side at the meeting to be held at Cleveland, 
Ohio, beginning on December 30, 1912. 
Proressor E. L. THornpike, of Teachers 
College, Columbia University, was elected 
