December 27, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



891 



seniors and juniors in fine arts, 6 seniors 

 and juniors in journalism, and 6 seniors in 

 Teachers College. Of the students in edu- 

 cation, 1,379 were enrolled in Teachers Col- 

 lege and 227 in the school of practical arts. 



Cornell. — No information was given as to 

 the number of summer session students who 

 returned for work in the fall, and an esti- 

 mate was therefore made based on the re- 

 turns in the previous year. 



Harvard. — The 483 students mentioned 

 under ' ' College, Women ' ' are registered at 

 Eadcliffe College, where 80 of the 532 grad- 

 uate students are also to be found. 



Illinois. — The decrease in the total reg- 

 istration this year is caused by the discon- 

 tinuation of the work in medicine and den- 

 tistry on June 30, 1912. The 269 students 

 listed under "other courses" consist of 33 

 students in the library school, and 236 wo- 

 men enrolled in the courses in household 

 science. The latter students are registered 

 in three colleges, namely, arts, science and 

 agriculture, but are not included in sepa- 

 rate figures for these schools. 



Indiana. — The large increase is due to 

 the establishment of courses in journalism, 

 music and pedagogy, which were not repre- 

 sented in the table of 1910. 



Iowa. — Of the 113 students in medicine, 

 14 are taking work in homeopathic medi- 

 cine. The students listed under ' ' extension 

 and similar courses" are students in 

 pharmacy, medicine, the nurses' training 

 school of the college of medicine, and that 

 of the college of homeopathic medicine, in 

 which schools high school graduation is not 

 required for admission. The falling off in 

 the grand total is due to the fact that these 

 students were included in the upper part 

 of the table in previous years. Music is 

 now a part of the new college of fine arts, 

 for the regular courses in which high school 

 graduation is required, but since music 

 students are not required to submit any en- 



trance credentials, it is difficult to tell how 

 many of the fine arts students have met sec- 

 ondary requirements for a collegiate course. 



Minnesota. — The decrease in numbers in 

 the college of science, literature and the 

 arts is undoubtedly due to the qualitative 

 requirement for admission. The apparent 

 decrease in law is explained by the change 

 in classification. Under the new adminis- 

 tration, the evening law school has been 

 abolished, and that work is now offered 

 through the extension division. The de- 

 crease in students electing art is due to the 

 shifting of that department from the col- 

 lege of science, literature and the arts to 

 the college of education. The registration 

 of the graduate school will doubtless equal 

 last year's figure before the close of the 

 present year. The falling off in pedagogy 

 is the result of a change in classification; a 

 number, heretofore registered as specials 

 in that college, are now regular students in 

 the college of science, literature and the arts. 



Missouri. — The decrease in the enroll- 

 ment in the schools of law, journalism and 

 engineering is due to the fact that the 

 standards of admission of these schools 

 have been increased by the requirement of 

 two years of college work in addition to a 

 four-years' high school course. This re- 

 quirement was first imposed in the session 

 of 1911-12, but in that session the second 

 and third classes in the school of law, and 

 the sophomore, junior and senior classes in 

 the schools of engineering and journalism 

 consisted of students who had entered 

 under the old standards of admission. The 

 elimination of one of these classes explains 

 the decrease in enrollment in these schools 

 during the past session. The decrease will 

 probably be manifested during the next 

 session in the school of law and during the 

 next two sessions in the schools of engineer- 

 ing and journalism. The schools of educa- 

 tion and medicine also require two years of 



