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college work for admission, but as this 

 standard was established at an earlier date, 

 all of the students who entered under the 

 lower requirements have been eliminated 

 and the enrollment in these schools is now 

 beginning to increase. 



New York University. — The school of 

 commerce shows an increase of 226 over the 

 total enrollment for last year. The re- 

 quirements in this school are the same as 

 they were last year and the increased at- 

 tendance shows the demand for such 

 courses. The medical college shows a de- 

 crease of 179 from the total enrollment of 

 last year. The loss falls almost entirely 

 upon the freshman class, which numbers 53 

 this year, as against 206 for November, 

 1911. The reason for this decrease in the 

 entering class is that beginning with this 

 year, one year of college work has been re- 

 quired for admission in addition to high 

 school graduation. A one year preparatory 

 course covering physics, chemistry, biology 

 and scientific German is being offered for 

 men who expect to enter the medical college 

 next year, and there are at present 52 in this 

 class whose names are included in the total 

 for the collegiate division. The law school 

 shows a small falling ofE of 16 from last 

 year, which is doubtless due to the fact that 

 in the autumn of 1911 the law school was 

 placed on a strictly three-year basis for the 

 degree. 



Northwestern. — There is an increase in 

 every school of the university excepting the 

 medical school, but the most gratifjdng in- 

 crease is in the college of liberal arts. A 

 committee of alumni and officers started a 

 campaign last year to interest the gradu- 

 ates in increasing the number of men. The 

 campaign resulted in an increase in men in 

 the freshman class over the previous class 

 of fifty-two per cent. 



Ohio State. — The total enrollment, in- 

 cluding the summer session, shows but a 



slight increase, which is due to the fact that 

 the summer school of 1912 showed a de- 

 crease of 166 in its enrollment. This was 

 largely due to the fact that the appropria- 

 tion for the summer school was cut by the 

 legislature from ten thousand to five thou- 

 sand dollars, and it was necessary that cer- 

 tain courses be eliminated. All secondary 

 work was dropped, and all students were of 

 college or graduate rank and were required 

 to meet the entrance requirements of the 

 college in which they wished to enroll. 



Pennsylvania. — While the total enroll- 

 ment has fallen off as compared with the 

 figures of the preceding year, there is an in- 

 crease of 82 in the number of first year 

 men. The increase of 4 in the first-year 

 enrollment of the medical school indicates 

 that the heavy falling off in registration due 

 to the gradual raising of entrance require- 

 ments since 1908 has been checked, and a 

 healthy reaction should be noticed from 

 now on. The apparent falling off in total 

 enrollment in the veterinary medical school 

 is partly explained by the fact that the 

 graduating class last June, 58, was un- 

 usually large. The normal senior class is 

 about forty. The decrease in enrollment 

 in civil, mechanical and electrical engineer- 

 ing is not peculiar to the university this 

 year, as it is reported that there has been a 

 falling off in those courses generally 

 throughout the country. 



Princeton. — Of the 1,409 undergradu- 

 ates, 150 are students in the undergraduate 

 civil engineering department, while the 11 

 additional students listed under scientific 

 courses are enrolled in the electrical engi- 

 neering school. 



Texas. — In the fall of 1908 the minimum 

 number of entrance units on which a stu- 

 dent might be admitted was increased from 

 eight units to eleven units, and the follow- 

 ing year from eleven units to twelve units, 

 at which number it has eontimied until the 



