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cooperation with the National Academy of 

 Design. In connection with the faculty of 

 fine arts a course of study is offered for the 

 first time leading to the degree of bachelor 

 of music, and several students have become 

 enrolled as candidates for this new degree. 

 The Theodore Roosevelt professorship of 

 American history and institutions in the 

 University of Berlin and the Kaiser- Wil- 

 helm professorship of German history and 

 institutions at Columbia University were 

 founded during the past year, Professor 

 John W. Burgess, dean of the faculty of 

 political science, being the first incumbent 

 of the chair at Berlin, and Hermann Schu- 

 macher, of the University of Bonn, being 

 the first incumbent of the Columbia chair. 

 President Arthur T. Hadley, of Yale, has 

 been appointed second Theodore Roosevelt 

 professor. Columbia and Yale have coop- 

 erated in the establishment of courses in 

 preparation for foreign service, and several 

 Columbia students have become candidates 

 this year for the consular certificate. The 

 joint course of study is intended for the 

 benefit of young men preparing for work 

 in foreign countries, whether in the service 

 of the United States government, in busi- 

 ness enterprises, or as missionaries or scien- 

 tific investigators. Barnard College has 

 established a course leading to the degree 

 of bachelor of science. The work of the 

 first tw^o years of the collegiate course of 

 Teachers College will be transferred from 

 Teachers College to Columbia College, for 

 men, and to Barnard College, for women. 

 In other words, a candidate for the B.S. 

 degree in education spends the first two 

 years at Columbia or Barnard College, 

 respectively, and the last two years at 

 Teachers College. In accordance with this 

 arrangement the first-year class at Teachers 

 College has been abolished this year; the 

 second-year class will fall out in 1907. 



At Cornell University there has been a 

 noticeable gain in the academic department, 



as well as in the scientific schools. Under 

 'scientific schools' are included only those 

 of mechanical engineering (with an enroll- 

 ment of 1,084 students) and civil engineer- 

 ing (with an enrollment of 460 students), 

 the students in chemistry being included 

 under the academic department, and not 

 under the scientific department. Practi- 

 cally all of the gain in the scientific schools 

 has been made in the department of civil 

 engineering, the enrollment of Sibley Col- 

 lege (the department of mechanical engi- 

 neering) having remained stationary. The 

 schools of law and medicine show a de- 

 crease, the graduate schools and the school 

 of agriculture an increase, while the school 

 of architecture and the veterinary college 

 have practically the same enrollment as in 

 1905. The summer session shows a gain 

 from 619 to 642, although the number of 

 summer-session students who returned for 

 work in the fall has decreased from 312 to 

 266. 



The total attendance at Harvard Uni- 

 versity shows an increase, to which the 

 academic department particularly has con- 

 tributed. The law school and the graduate 

 schools, as well as the school of dentistry, 

 show a falling off, while divinity has the 

 same enrollment as last year. Medicine 

 shows an increase of six. 



The increase in Harvard College (from 1,898 

 to 2,236) and the noticeable reduction of the 

 Lawrence Scientific School (from 507 to 242) is 

 due to changes of classification and also to new 

 plans of study adopted by scientific tindergradu- 

 ates in connection with the establishment this 

 year of the new graduate school of applied science. 

 This year students formerly registered in the 

 Lawrence scientific school were given their choice 

 of remaining in the four-years prescribed pro- 

 grams leading to the degree of B.S. in a desig- 

 nated field of study, such as mining engineering 

 or architecture, or of shifting their registration to 

 Harvard College, there to receive the plain degree 

 of B.S. on an elective course of study. Those 

 who have chosen the latter alternative will in 

 many cases take a more liberal course of study 

 than would have been open to them in the Law- 



