December 21, 1906.] 



SCIENCE. 



803 



and the arts, whereas those taking the general, 

 scientific, or Latin courses were admitted without 

 question. As the regulation now stands, students 

 are admitted from any accredited school, pro- 

 vided the certificate of graduation shows the 

 completion of four years of English and two 

 years of mathematics, the other subjects being 

 optional. This would naturally lead to an in- 

 crease in the number of men in the college of 

 science, literature and the arts. 



The attendance at the University of Mis- 

 souri continues to increase, the total gain 

 in the fall registration (exclusive of the 

 summer session) being no less than 178 

 this year, as against a gain of 89 last year. 

 This gain is distributed over all the de- 

 partments, with the exception of medicine. 



In the department of medicine there has been 

 an increase of two years work in the entrance 

 requirements. For the session of 1905-6, three 

 years of high school work was required. For the 

 present session, students must have completed one 

 year's college work in specified subjects in addi- 

 tion to the four years' high school work required 

 for entrance to the college. This increase in 

 entrance requirements is in large part responsible 

 for the decrease in enrollment in the department 

 of medicine. For the past eighteen months there 

 has been considerable agitation for the removal of 

 the work of the two last years in medicine to St. 

 Louis or Kansas City. While no definite deci- 

 sion has been made, as yet, it is probable that 

 the uncertainty contributed in some measure to 

 the loss in this department. 



The large increase in pedagogy is a continua- 

 tion of the movement which commenced in 1904, 

 as a result of the organization of the teachers 

 college and the strengthening of the instruction 

 in this department. 



The increase in the academic department (col- 

 lege of arts) is partly due to the increased 

 tendency of students to take the A.B. degree 

 before beginning professional work. This has 

 been promoted by the establishment of combined 

 six-year courses. The increase in the entrance 

 requirements to the department of medicine, re- 

 ferred to above, has also affected the increase in 

 enrollment in the academic department. The 

 large increase in the number of women in the uni- 

 versity, too, has affected the enrollment in the 

 academic department and teachers college. This 

 marked increase commenced in 1903 with the 

 opening of Read Hall, a dormitory for women. 



Of the 2,071 students, 1,483 are men and 588 are 

 women as compared with 1,388 and 499 respect- 

 ively, in 1905, at the same date. 



The University of Nebraska shows an in- 

 crease in every faculty, with the exception 

 of law, and there has also been an increase 

 in the summer session. The 200 students 

 mentioned under 'other courses' represent 

 the estimated enrollment in the short course 

 in agriculture, which begins on January 2. 

 It is rather difficult to make accurate com- 

 parisons for the earlier years, inasmuch as 

 the figures for 1902, 1903 and 1904 repre- 

 sent the final figures for the respective 

 academic years, while the 1905 figure rep- 

 resents the enrollment as of November 1 of 

 that year. No doubt the total enrollment 

 for the academic year 1906-7 will reach 

 2,900. 



As New York University was not in- 

 cluded in the table last year, no compari- 

 sons of individual faculties can be made, 

 but there has been a considerable gain in 

 the total over 1905. Among the changes 

 which may have affected the enrollment 

 should be mentioned the increase in the 

 tuition fee in the schools of applied science 

 from $100 to $125 ; the increase of the fee 

 in the law school from $100 to $130, and 

 the raising of the requirements for the 

 Ph.D. degree in the graduate school from 

 six to eight courses; the addition of a $5 

 matriculation fee, and the requirement of 

 a seven-years' degree from graduates of 

 the New York City Normal College. In 

 the veterinary college, the entrance require- 

 ments have been raised from thirty-six 

 regents counts to forty-eight. 



Northwestern University shows a loss in 

 attendance, which is partly due to the fact 

 that there were no summer-session students 

 in 1906, while there were 194 in 1905, al- 

 though of the latter 152 returned for work 

 in the fall. The gains in the college and 

 the schools of law, medicine, music and 

 oratory, are not sufficient to offset the losses 



