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purposes, and that witli the collaboration of 

 Chancellor Jordan and President Branner, 

 they had determined to buUd up the present 

 departments of university work to the high- 

 est point of efficiency before entering new 

 fields. The salary increases, it is announced, 

 are the first of several to be made with the in- 

 tention of raising the pay of the teaching force 

 to a level somewhat nearer than it has been to 

 that reached by the cost of living. 



FOREIGN STUDENTS AT AMERICAN COL- 

 LEGES AND UNIVERSITIES 



There were 4,222 foreign students in at- 

 tendance at colleges and universities in the 

 United States in the year 1913, according to 

 figures just compiled at the United States 

 Bureau of Education. This is an increase of 

 67Y in two years. These students are not con- 

 centrated at the larger and better known in- 

 stitutions, as might be expected, but are dis- 

 tributed over 275 different colleges, universi- 

 ties and schools of technology. The number 

 given includes only regular students of col- 

 lege or graduate grade; if students enrolled in 

 preparatory departments, short-term courses, 

 summer schools and independent professional 

 schools were included, the total would be very 

 much larger. 



Canada has the largest representation — 653 

 students. China and Japan are not far be- 

 hind — there were 594 Chinese students and 

 336 from Japan attending colleges in the 

 United States in 1913. Of the other Oriental 

 or Asiatic peoples, India is represented by 162 

 students ; Turkey by 143 ; Korea by 13 ; Persia 

 by 21, and Siam by 13. 



Latin-America is strongly represented. 

 Cuba sends 209; Costa Eica, 29; Guatemala, 

 15; Honduras, 12; Nicaragua, 18; Panama, 

 28, and Salvador, 19. Mexico heads the list 

 with 223 students. From South America, Ar- 

 gentine sends 43 students; Brazil, 113; Bo- 

 livia, 3; Chile, 12; Colombia, 37; Ecuador, 

 16; Paraguay, 2; Peru, 25; Uruguay, 2, and 

 Venezuela, 7. 



- Abundance of higher education opportuni- 

 ties in the British Isles and on the continent 

 of Europe has not prevented nearly 800 Euro- 



pean students from coming to America to go 

 to college. Great Britain and Ireland are 

 represented by 212 students, and Germany, 

 herself the meca of the studious, sends 122. 

 The others, in order of numbers, are: Eussia, 

 124; France, 45; Sweden, 41; Italy, 38; Aus- 

 tria-Hungary, 34; Switzerland, 29; Norway, 

 26; Greece, 22; Spain, 20; Netherlands, 19; 

 Bulgaria, 15; Eoumania, 6; Belgium, 4; Por- 

 tugal, 3; Montenegro, 1. 



Even Australia and Africa have students at 

 colleges in the United States. There are 56 

 students from New Zealand. Africa is repre- 

 sented by 15 from Egypt ; 2 from Liberia, and 

 44 from South Africa. 



From American possessions 434 students 

 came to college in the United States ; 108 from 

 Hawaii; 215 from Porto Eico, and 111 from 

 the Philippine Islands. 



TSE GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL 



The jury of award of the George Washing- 

 ton Memorial Association have given first hon- 

 ors to the architectural firm of Tracy and 

 Swartwout, New York. 



The members of the committee, Mr. Philip 

 Sawyer, Mr. Charles A. Piatt and Mr. Walter 

 Cook, met for the consideration of the award, 

 on May 2, but deferred their decision until 

 May 4 when they came to the conclusion that 

 of the thirteen competing architects, the plans 

 rendered by Messrs. Tracy and Swartwout 

 were the most satisfactory. The selected 

 drawings wiU now be presented to the Na- 

 tional Commission of Fine Arts, and, with 

 their approval, the association will give the 

 architects charge of the construction of the 

 building. The first award is $1,500, but each 

 competing architect who has submitted plans 

 in accordance with the specifications will re- 

 ceive an honorarium of $500. 



Tracy and Swartwout's drawings depict a 

 fine colonial building with pillared front, and 

 square ground plan. The main feature is 

 the great auditorium seating 6,000 people, 

 which is artistically arranged in the form 

 of an ellipse, with the stage at one end, and 

 a deep balcony encircling the whole. The 

 site of the building is to be in that part of the 



