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Syracuse has 177 students of forestry, 

 Ohio State 74, Nebraska 64 and Yale 40 ; at 

 California, Harvard, Illinois, Michigan and 

 Minnesota the forestry students are counted 

 in with other departments. Columbia has 

 a long lead in the number of non-profes- 

 sional graduate students, there being no 

 less than 1,399 students enrolled in its fac- 

 ulties of political science, philosophy and 

 pure science. Columbia is followed by Har- 

 vard with 532 students, Chicago with 490, 

 Yale with 429 and Pennsylvania with 403. 

 Wisconsin has the largest school of journal- 

 ism, enrolling 95 students as compared with 

 Columbia's 72, Indiana's 70 and Missouri's 

 55. The largest law school is at Harvard 

 University, where 740 students are regis- 

 tered in this subject ; New York University 

 follows with 693 students, Michigan with 

 654 and Columbia with 457. In medicine 

 New York University leads with 408, being 

 followed by Johns Hopkins with 351, Tu- 

 lane with 349, Columbia with 336 and 

 Pennsylvania with 313. Syracuse has the 

 largest number of music students, namely, 

 855, there being 452 at Northwestern and 

 118 at Indiana and at Kansas. The Teach- 

 ers College of Columbia University is by 

 far the largest school of education con- 

 nected with any of the institutions in the 

 list. It has an enrollment this fall of no 

 less than 1,606 students, as against 540 stu- 

 dents of education at Indiana, 478 at Pitts- 

 burgh, 398 at Texas and 355 at New York 

 University. Columbia also has by far the 

 largest school of pharmacy, enrolling 420 

 students, as against 195 at Pittsburgh, 193 

 at Northwestern and 176 at Illinois. As 

 for the scientific schools, Cornell continues 

 to maintain its lead in this branch, enroll- 

 ing 1,419 students, as against Michigan's 

 1,284, Yale's 1,139, Illinois' s 965, Cali- 

 fornia's 735, Wisconsin's 728, Ohio State's 

 726, Pennsylvania's 713 and Columbia's 



634. In veterinary medicine Ohio State 

 leads with 155, being followed by Cornell 

 with 120 and Pennsylvania with 115. All 

 of the above figures for individual facul- 

 ties are exclusive of the summer session at- 

 tendance. The largest summer session in 

 1912 was at Cohimbia University, where 

 3,602 students were enrolled, as against 

 3,531 at Chicago, 2,275 at California, 1,741 

 at Wisco7isin, 1,324 at Michigan, 1,307 at 

 Cornell, 1,197 at Indiana, 1,116 at Tulane 

 and 1,046 at Harvard. 



The largest number of ofiScers is found at 

 Columbia, where the staff of teaching and 

 administrative officers consists of 867 mem- 

 bers, as against 825 at Cornell, 771 at Har- 

 vard, 595 at Wisconsin, 577 at Illinois, and 

 549 at Pennsylvania. 



California. — The 894 students listed 

 under extension and similar courses were 

 divided as follows : San Francisco Institute 

 of Art, 225 ; Wilmerding School of Indus- 

 trial Arts, 190; University Farm School, 

 150; Short Course in Agriculture, 187; 

 Correspondence Courses in Agriculture, 

 142. In addition there is an enrollment of 

 approximately 37,000 students in the farm- 

 ers' institutes, etc. Of the 159 law stu- 

 dents, 62 are graduate students in the de- 

 partment of jurisprudence, candidates for 

 the degree of J.D., and 97 are registered in 

 the Hastings College of Law as candidates 

 for the degree of LL.B. Of the medical 

 students, 82 are enrolled in the first and 

 second years at Berkeley, and 19 in the 

 third and fourth years at San Francisco, 

 and 17 in the third and fourth years at 

 Los Angeles. 



Columbia. — 97 college students are also 

 registered in the professional faculties of 

 the university (in the exercise of a profes- 

 sional option) as follows: 45 seniors in law, 

 26 seniors and juniors in medicine, 9 seniors 

 in mines, engineering and chemistry, 5 



