December 21, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



801 



rence scientific school, postponing their advanced 

 professional work until they enter the graduate 

 school of applied science, where they will spend 

 two or three years. Owing to these changes, the 

 body of students corresponding to that which has 

 heretofore been catalogued as scientific, that is, 

 in the sense that they are actually working 

 toward a professional degree in science, can only 

 be found by adding to the students in the old 

 undergraduate four-year programs in science, 

 all those students now in Harvard College who, 

 while candidates for the .elective B.S. or the 

 A.B., are continually pursuing such elementary 

 or introductory studies in science as shall most 

 eflfectively advance their subsequent candidacy for 

 one of the degrees of the graduate school of ap- 

 plied science. 



To extricate these undergraduates so as to 

 furnish a satisfactory comparison with last year 

 is so complicated and futile a task, that it seems 

 best to let the category ' scientific schools ' stand 

 with its apparently heavy loss. It may be pre- 

 dicted that the undergraduate portion of this 

 category (212 in 1906) will disappear in a few 

 years, while the graduate portion (30 in 1906) 

 will slowly increase, until the scientific profes- 

 sional bi-anches are completely established at 

 Harvard on the graduate level on which its 

 schools of divinity, law and medicine already 

 stand. 



As among the most important events of this 

 period at Harvard should be mentioned the estab- 

 lishment of the medical school in its five great 

 white marble buildings on land already arranged 

 for the neighboring occupancy of a group of im- 

 portant hospitals — an equipment which is note- 

 worthy not only for its present adaptation to 

 medical instruction and research, but also for its 

 generous and minutely elaborated allowances for 

 future growth. The other important addition to 

 Harvard's equipment of buildings is the new 

 building for the law school, to be called Langdell 

 Hall, in honor of the late dean of the school. 



In the financial administration of the Uni- 

 versity an important feature this year is the 

 establishment in the departments within the 

 faculty of art and sciences of a new system of 

 tuition fees, whereby each student is obliged to 

 pay in addition to the lump sum of one hundred 

 and fifty dollars a year, twenty dollars for each 

 course beyond the minimum number required for 

 a full year's work. 



Harvard is offering this year for the first time 

 a considerable group of afternoon and Saturday 

 courses for teachers. The students thus enrolled 

 are not counted in the table. 



At the University of Illinois there has 

 again been a good increase in the grand 

 total, but the increase aside from the sum- 

 mer session is also quite marked. Gains 

 have been made in every department, with 

 the exception of medicine, dentistry and the 

 graduate schools, the largest increase hav.- 

 ing been made (as was the ease last year) 

 by the scientific schools. The 42 students 

 mentioned under 'other courses' are en- 

 rolled in the library school, which offers a 

 five-year course leading to the degree of 

 B.L.S. 



The enrollment in Indiana University 

 shows a satisfactory increase all along the 

 line, the growth being noticeable especially 

 in the academic department for women, 

 where the enrollment has increased from 

 299 to 397, and in the school of medicine, 

 which has increased from 26 to 65 students. 

 At Johns Hopkins University there has 

 been a decrease in enrollment, the college 

 registration having dropped from 188 to 

 166, that in medicine from 293 to 264, that 

 in the graduate schools from 160 to 156, 

 and in ' special courses for physicians ' from 

 47 to 32. 



As the figures of the University of Kan- 

 sas for 1902 to 1905 are those for the close 

 of the respective academic years, no accu- 

 rate comparisons can be made. No doubt 

 the final figures for 1906-7 will show a 

 gain over last year. The large increase in 

 1905 was due to the merging of the uni- 

 versity medical school and three medical 

 schools in Kansas City, Mo. This univer- 

 sity is at present erecting a $100,000 gym- 

 nasium, which is to be occupied in the fall 

 of 1907. 



Leland Stanford University shows a 

 slight decrease, the reason for which is self- 

 evident. This decrease has made itself felt 

 in all departments but law, which has re- 

 mained stationary. It should be noted in 

 connection with the statistics of this uni- 

 versity that the number of women is lim- 



