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in the graduate school and the departments 

 of dentistry, divinity and pharmacy. The 

 students enrolled under 'other courses' are 

 registered in the department of oratory. 



Ohio State University shows an increase 

 over last year, the only departments show- 

 ing a loss being those of agriculture and 

 forestry. Of the 180 students in the school 

 of agriculture, 51 are enrolled in the so- 

 called short course, which is two years in 

 length. Of the 62 students under 'other 

 courses,' 15 are registered in the so-called 

 short course in domestic science, which is 

 also two years in length. 



The University of Pennsylvania has made 

 considerable gains, especially in the scien- 

 tific schools, and the schools of medicine, 

 architecture, dentistry and veterinary medi- 

 cine. The academic department and the 

 graduate schools have remained stationary, 

 while the department of law shows a fall- 

 ing off. The greatest increase is to be 

 found under 'other courses,' namely, one 

 from 621 to 1,028. The students given 

 here are enrolled in the courses in finance 

 and commerce, both day and evening, and 

 in the teachers' courses. Some of the lat- 

 ter no doubt fall in the category of exten- 

 sion students, which are omitted in the 

 case of Harvard, Columbia and other insti- 

 tutions, and should therefore not be in- 

 cluded here, but it was impossible to ascer- 

 tain in time just how many of the students 

 enrolled in the courses for teachers should 

 be omitted. The largest increase was in 

 the summer school, which grew from 214 

 in 1905 to 275 in 1906. The increase in 

 the Towne scientific school is to be found 

 chiefly in the departments of mechanical 

 and electrical engineering. New require- 

 ments have been adopted for admission to 

 the law school which exclude all but college 

 graduates, unless the applicants are more 

 than twenty years old, the law school hav- 

 ing heretofore admitted all applicants who 

 passed the college entrance examination, 



irrespective of age. A splendidly equipped 

 engineering building has been occupied for 

 the first time this fall. 



The enrollment at Princeton University 

 shows a slight decrease over that of 1905. 

 Ab has already been pointed out, the aca- 

 demic department shows a gain of over 100, 

 while the scientific schools show a similar 

 decrease, the registration in the graduate 

 schools having remained stationary. The 

 entering class is not as large as it was last 

 year, the loss being attributed to increased 

 requirements and the more rigid enforce- 

 ment of the same. There has been a marked 

 increase in the number of students entering 

 Princeton on advanced standing from other 

 colleges, although this increase does not 

 quite offset the loss in the entering class. 



At Syracuse University the only depart- 

 ment that shows a decrease is that of art, 

 the schools of medicine, architecture and 

 music, as well as the graduate schools, hav- 

 ing remained stationary, while the remain- 

 ing departments show considerable gains, 

 the academic enrollment having increased 

 from 1,213 to 1,332. 



The new buildings at Syracuse University now 

 in process of erection and nearing completion are: 

 (1) The general library, the gift of Mr. Andrew 

 Carnegie, with stack accommodations for three- 

 quarters of a million volumes, a reading room 

 to accommodate three hundred students, and 

 twenty seminar rooms, besides ample accommoda- 

 tions in the first story for the school of library 

 economy. (2) A hall of natural history, erected 

 at a cost of about $200,000. (3) A $100,000 

 mechanical laboratory for the engineering courses 

 in applied science. (4) A dormitory for men, 

 with capacity for two hundred; cost about $150,- 

 000. (5) A chemical laboratory. (6) Fourteen 

 acres of land adjoining the campus and a large 

 structure known for many years as the Castle, the 

 proportions of which are finely adapted to the 

 work of the teachers college have been purchased. 

 (7) A stadium is being built with a seating 

 capacity of about twenty thousand people; it is 

 an excavation and after the Athenian or ancient 

 Syracuse style. Tlie campus of Syracuse to-day 

 comprises ninety-eight acres. The total number 

 of educational buildings is twenty-one. 



