Decembeb 27, 1912] 



SCIENCE 



893 



present time. Beginning with tte fall of 

 1909, five college courses were required for 

 admission to the department of law, and 

 since the fall of 1910, five courses have 

 been required for admission to the depart- 

 ment of medicine. The percentage of men 

 over women registered in the college of 

 arts this session is larger than ever before. 

 This is doubtless explained by the fact that 

 more men than heretofore are taking their 

 pre-medical and pre-law training. 



Tulane. — Fourteen of the students 

 listed under medicine are enrolled in the 

 post-graduate medical school. The 10 stu- 

 dents listed under "other courses" are tak- 

 ing work in household economy. Inasmuch 

 as no allowance was made in the table fur- 

 nished for the summer session students who 

 returned for work in the fall, an estimate 

 was made based on the previous year. 



Virginia. — 1,285 of the students were in 

 attendance on the summer school of 1912, 

 which is not a part of the university session. 



Washington University. — The 78 stu- 

 dents listed under "other courses" are en- 

 rolled in the school of social economy. In 

 addition to the students accounted for in 

 the table, there are 140 registered in the 

 school of fine arts, but these have been 

 omitted because the school does not require 

 a four-year high school course for admis- 

 sion. They have been included, however, 

 under "extension and similar courses." 

 Many of these students have a high school 

 training and a number have even more. In 

 two departments the university has steadily 

 advanced the requirements, and the 

 changes in these departments have lowered 

 the registration and of course affected the 

 attendance materially. In the law school 

 the changes began in 1901-02. In this 

 year a fuU four-year high school require- 

 ment for admission was enforced. In 1904r- 

 1905 the course was extended to a full 

 three-year course, and the tuition was 



raised from eighty to one hundred dollars. 

 In 1909-10 the department was removed 

 from a location well down in the city to the 

 new campus, and in 1910-11 a full year of 

 college work was required for admission in 

 addition to a four-year high school course. 

 As a result of these changes, the registra- 

 tion has decreased from 124 in 1900-01 to 

 76 on November 1, 1912. The entering 

 classes are showing a recovery from the in- 

 creased requirement, and the total regis- 

 tration this year of entering students was 

 29 regulars and 9 unclassified, as against 

 17 regulars and 8 unclassified when the 

 last change in the requirement of a full 

 year of college work went into effect. More 

 marked still has been the change in the 

 medical school. Here a complete reorgani- 

 zation has been effected, vastly adding to 

 the facilities and to the teaching staff, plac- 

 ing the instructors on a full time basis even 

 in the clinical departments for the burden 

 of the teaching and research, but retaining 

 a considerable number of men on part time 

 to supplement the work of the regular staff 

 in instruction and in the clinics. In 1910- 

 1911 the requirement for admission was ad- 

 vanced to a full year of college work in ad- 

 dition to a four-year high school course, the 

 college requirement involving specific pre- 

 scriptions in chemistry, biology, physics, 

 German and English. The number re- 

 ceived under this new requirement dropped 

 to 13 from 50 the preceding year. Further- 

 more, the requirements for advanced stand- 

 ing were increased and rigidly enforced. 

 The following year the entering class 

 showed a recovery, the number rising to 23 ; 

 but in 1912-13 (the current session), the 

 requirement of two years of college work in 

 addition to a full four-year high school re- 

 quirement for admission, went into effect. 

 This college requirement included specific 

 prescriptions of two years of chemistry, one 

 of biology, one of physics, two of German, 



