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is by far the largest, Harvard with 437, 

 Chicago with 358 and Yale with 357 fol- 

 lowing in the order named, Minnesota 

 has by far the largest school of agriculture, 

 while Pennsylvania leads in the students 

 of architecture and Syracuse in those of 

 art; Pennsylvania also has by far the 

 largest school of dentistry. Northwestern 

 leads in divinity and Yale in forestry 

 (although some of the western institutions 

 that include forestry under agriculture 

 may actually have more forestry students 

 than Yale) ; Syracuse has the largest school 

 of music, Columbia the largest teachers' 

 college, as well as the largest school of 

 pharmacy, Ohio State the largest number 

 of veterinary students. As far as the sum- 

 mer session of 1906 is concerned, Harvard 

 and Columbia attracted more than one 

 thousand students, Michigan, California, 

 Indiana and Cornell following in the order 

 named. 



Taking up the different institutions in- 

 cluded in the table in alphabetical order, 

 we come first to the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



The total number of undergraduates in the 

 colleges of letters and science (including engineer- 

 ing) is 2,365, a gain of just three as compared 

 with November 1, 1905. This is the largest num- 

 ber of undergraduates ever enrolled at this period 

 of the academic year. The number of graduate 

 students is 204, a loss of 67. This loss, however, 

 is more apparent than real. Last year there was 

 an unprecedented increase in the enrollment of 

 graduate students, due to a new regulation which 

 made it necessary for the graduates of 1905 who 

 were applicants for the teachers' certificate to re- 

 turn to the University for at least a half-year 

 of graduate study. For various reasons due to 

 local conditions, this regulation was temporarily 

 suspended for the class graduating in the summer 

 of 1906. As a result very few of the graduates of 

 last summer who were aiming at teachers' certifi- 

 cates have found it necessary to come back to the 

 University for work in the graduate department. 

 Hereafter, by action of the State board of educa- 

 tion, high school teachers in California are not 

 to be certificated on University ci-edentials with- 



out a year of professional study following the 

 baccalaureate degree. 



Turning now to the professional colleges, in 

 San Francisco, it will be noticed that the school 

 of art has been temporarily discontinued. The 

 building and the equipment of the school were 

 totally destroyed by fire, though a few of the most 

 valuable paintings in the gallery were rescued. 

 As regards the loss of students in the other pro- 

 fessional colleges, it is to be said that existing 

 conditions in San Francisco are only in part 

 responsible. Some of these colleges have been 

 losing heavily during recent years and others have 

 been barely holding their own. As was reported 

 a year ago, the college of medicine has revised its 

 admission requirements and demands, in addition 

 to the equivalent of a four years' high school 

 course, at least two years of properly selected 

 university work. Eight or ten years ago the 

 colleges of law, dentistry and pharmacy began 

 to decline in number of students. During the 

 last four years the enrollments of law and phar- 

 macy have been practically stationary, and that 

 in dentistry has continued to decline. 



The principal additions to our equipment during 

 1905-6 were as follows: California Hall was com- 

 pleted and occupied. The administrative offices 

 and the departments of history, economics, poli- 

 tical science and education as well as the Bancroft 

 library are housed in this building. The cost of 

 the building, including equipment, was $292,000. 

 In the men's gymnasium, new dressing rooms and 

 showers were added at a cost of $30,000. In the 

 women's gymnasium similar improvements were 

 installed at a cost of $8,100. Temporary accom- 

 modations were provided for the departments of 

 architecture and entomology at a combined cost 

 of about $7,000. The university has established 

 on the campus a students' infirmary. For the 

 present, a wooden building upon the campus, 

 formerly used as a dwelling-house, will be refitted 

 and equipped as an infirmary and dispensary. 

 For the maintenance of the infirmary the students 

 here at Berkeley (colleges of letters and science, 

 including engineering) are assessed two dollars 

 and a half per half-year. 



I have recently taken some pains to investigate 

 the precise result of the San Francisco disaster 

 upon the living accommodations of the students. 

 It will help in understanding the questions at 

 issue if the reader be reminded that the Uni- 

 versity of California has never maintained 

 dormitories for the students; and that in 1894- 

 95 only 51% of the students attending the colleges 

 at Berkeley had their lodgings in Berkeley dur- 



