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them into the first division, notably Miinster, 
Strassburg and Géttingen. 
Of the 57,398 matriculated students, 2,853 
were registered in Protestant theology, 1,770 
in Catholic theology, 11,632 in law, 13,870 in 
medicine, and 27,273 in the faculty of phi- 
losophy. In addition there were 3,824 male 
auditors and 1,739 female auditors. In addi- 
tion to the female auditors there were 2,796 
matriculated women in attendance, as against 
2,551 during the summer semester of 1911; 
2,126 of these were registered under the fac- 
ulty of philosophy, 600 in medicine, 65 in 
law and 5 in theology. 
Of the 57,398 matriculated students, 52,435 
came from Germany, while 4,417 came from 
other European countries, 338 from America, 
175 from Asia, 28 from Africa and 5 from 
Australia. The largest delegations from 
European countries hailed from Russia 
(2,211), Austria (842), Switzerland (341), 
Roumania (166), Great Britain and Ireland 
(160), Bulgaria (153) and Greece (98). Ber- 
lin attracts by far the largest number of for- 
eign students, namely, 1,536, being followed 
by Munich (752), Leipzig (697), Halle (320), 
Heidelberg (215), Kénigsberg (203), Gdot- 
tingen (172) and Breslau (160). 
R. Tomso, Jr. 
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF THE UNIVER- 
SITY OF ILLINOIS 
Tue University of Illinois undertook some 
years ago in the city of Chicago an experiment 
in the work of medical education. As it had 
received no grant from the legislature for the 
erection of a plant, it leased the buildings, 
ground and equipment necessary for the use 
of a medical school from the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons in the city of Chicago. 
The rental paid for this property was very 
reasonable, not exceeding, in fact, the fixed 
charges of the plant, counting in the interest 
on the mortgages and bonds and the require- 
ments of the sinking fund. The school has 
been conducted for some fifteen years under 
this general arrangement, with details varied 
from time to time. During that period the 
school has been greatly improved, and ranks 
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to-day among the good American medical 
schools. 
The University of Illinois, however, has 
never expended upon this school or its man- 
agement or in rent for the use of the property, 
a single dollar from the state appropriations. 
It has been limited to the use of the fees paid 
by students. The claim may be fairly made 
that no better school, conducted on the basis 
of student fees alone, can be found in the 
country. The time has come, however, when 
no medical school can be maintained in ac- 
cordance with modern standards, whose only 
support is derived from the payment of fees 
by students. Recognizing this fact, and un- 
willing to conduct an inferior school, the uni- 
versity has asked the legislature upon three 
different occasions for funds to put the school 
upon a proper basis. The legislature granted 
at one time the sum of $389,000 for the pur- 
pose of providing an adequate plant for the 
use of the medical school. The governor, how- 
ever, vetoed this bill. In answer to the last 
request from the university, the legislature 
granted (at the 47th Session) for the present 
biennium, the sum of $60,000 per annum for 
the equipment, maintenance and extension of 
the college of medicine of the University of 
Illinois. This appropriation was lost by the 
recent decision of the Supreme Court that it 
was unconstitutional, owing to the fact that 
the provision in the bill making this appro- 
priation had been amended in the conference 
committee without having been printed. 
The university now renews its request to 
the General Assembly for an appropriation 
for the equipment, maintenance and extension 
of its work in medicine and public health. 
The: College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
however, has decided not to renew to the uni- 
versity the lease for the use of its present 
plant in the city of Chicago when it expires 
on June 30, 1912. 
Owing to the fact that there is no other 
adequate plant in the city of Chicago which 
can be obtained for the use of a medical 
school, at a reasonable rental, the board of 
trustees of the university have been com- 
pelled to announce the closing of the medical 
