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SCIENCE. 



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tions. At Princeton, for example, the num- 

 ber of academic students has increased 

 from 629 to 758, at Yale from 1,323 to 

 1,350, at Columbia from 557 to 606 ; where- 

 as the number of scientific students at the 

 same institutions has decreased from 624 

 to 484 in the case of Princeton, from 1,028 

 to 929 in the case of Yale and from 566 to 

 524 in the case of Columbia. At Harvard 

 the discrepancy is even greater, the reason 

 for which will be given later. The only- 

 other institution, in addition to those men- 

 tioned above, which shows a loss in the 

 enrollment of the scientific schools is the 

 University of California, and there the de- 

 crease is scarcely worthy of mention. The 

 largest gain in the number of scientific 

 students has been made by Illinois (from 

 880 to 1,020). As far as the number of 

 women in academic courses is concerned, 

 there has been a decrease at California and 

 Stanford, while in all of the other institu- 

 tions there has been a noticeable gain, par- 

 ticularly at Indiana, where the number has 

 increased from 299 to 397; at Missouri, 

 where a gain from 281 to 354 may be 

 noted, and at Wisconsin, where the number 

 of women has grown from 653 to 718. 



The professional schools of law and medi- 

 cine show a general falling off in attend- 

 ance, appreciable gains in law having been 

 made only by Chicago, Illinois, Indiana, 

 Missouri, Northwestern, Syracuse, Virginia 

 and Yale ; and in medicine only by Indiana, 

 Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Virginia and 

 Yale. Strange to say, a number of the in- 

 stitutions show a decrease also in the en- 

 rollment in the graduate schools, appre- 

 ciable gains having been registered only in 

 the ease of Cornell, Missouri, Virginia and 

 Wisconsin, In pharmacy some of the in- 

 stitutions have made slight gains, while 

 others show a loss. None of the institu- 

 tions has lost veterinary students and the 

 same holds true for forestry, although the 

 gains are in no case large. The only dental 



schools that show an increase are those of 

 Michigan and Pennsylvania. Architecture 

 and music exhibit gains all along the line, 

 with few exceptions. Minnesota and Ohio 

 are the only institutions which have ex- 

 perienced a loss in students of agriculture. 

 The divinity school at Harvard is prac- 

 tically as large as it was last year, while at 

 Northwestern there is a loss of forty-six, 

 at Yale of six and at Chicago of four 

 students. Pedagogy shows a healthy in- 

 crease in all but one of the institutions 

 (Wisconsin). 



Harvard still maintains the large lead 

 that it has had for a number of years in 

 the academic department. Inasmuch as a 

 number of universities do not separate men 

 from women in the academic statistics, it is 

 difficult to determine the exact order for 

 men only, but taking both men and women 

 into consideration, the order would be 

 Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, California, 

 Leland Stanford, Minnesota, Yale, Chicago, 

 Syracuse, Columbia. It will thus be seen 

 that of the ten universities having an en- 

 rollment of over one thousand academic 

 students, six are situated in the west. Cor- 

 nell still leads in the number of scientific 

 students, Michigan occupying second place, 

 as was the case last year. Illinois comes 

 third, followed by Yale, Wisconsin, Ohio 

 State, California, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, 

 Minnesota, Missouri and Columbia. Of 

 the twelve institutions in the table with an 

 enrollment of over five hundred scientific 

 students, eight are located in the western 

 states. New York University has the 

 largest law school among the institutions 

 in the list, with Michigan second, Harvard 

 third and Minnesota fourth. Harvard being 

 the only one of these four requiring a bac- 

 calaureate degree for admission. Penn- 

 sylvania has the largest medical school, 

 with Northwestern second and Illinois 

 third. As for the graduate schools, Co- 

 lumbia with an enrollment of 808 students 



