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SCIENCE 



[N. S. Vol. XXVI. No. 656 



America is Harvard, Pennsylvania, Cor- 

 nell, Columbia, Yale, Michigan; in South 

 America.— Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columiia 

 and Ohio; in Europe— Pennsylvania, Co- 

 lumiia, Harvard, Cornell, Yale; in Asia— 

 Columbia, Yale, Cornell, Harvard, Cali- 

 fornia; in Africa Harvard leads, while in 

 Australasia Pennsylvania alone has a good 

 representation. The countries of North 

 and Central America naturally continue to 

 send the largest foreign delegations to the 

 institutions represented in the tables of 

 1906 and 1907, but Asia has passed Europe, 

 and South America has increased its dele- 

 gation by 40 per cent. As for individual 

 countries, there is no change in the order 

 for Canada, namely. Harvard, Columbia, 

 Cornell and Yale; Pennsylvania con- 

 tinues to have the best Central Amer- 

 ican representation; Cornell attracts the 

 largest number of Cubans and of Mexi- 

 cans, and Pennsylvania the largest num- 

 ber of West Indians. Of the North Amer- 

 ican countries, Canada sends the largest 

 delegation— 177— followed by Cuba with 

 47, and Mexico with 44. Counting only 

 the institutions represented in both this and 

 last year's table, the Canadian representa- 

 tion shows an increase of 13, while Cuba 

 exhibits a slight gain and Mexico a small 

 loss. Cornell leads in the Argentine Re- 

 public and Peru; Pennsylvania in Brazil 

 and Chili; Columbia in Colombia and 

 Ecuador. Of the South American coun- 

 tries, the Argentine Republic sends the 

 largest delegation, followed by Brazil, the 

 position of these two countries having been 

 reversed since last year. 



In the European countries that send ten 

 or more students the order is as follows: 

 France— Pennsylvania, Columbia and Har- 

 vard; Germ&nj- Columbia, Pennsylvania 

 and Michigan; Great Britain and Ireland 

 — Harvard, Pennsylvania, Columbia and 

 Yale; 'Russia— Pennsylvania, Columbia, 



Cornell; Pennsylvania leads in Holland 

 and Yale in Turkey. England sends the 

 largest number, namely 50, followed by 

 Germany with 30, France with 22, and 

 Russia with 19. Of the Asiatic countries, 

 Japan sends 116, China 84 and India 39, 

 both China and India having more than 

 doubled their representation at the institu- 

 tions contained in both this and last year's 

 tables, while Japan's delegation has re- 

 mained practically stationary. A number 

 of residents of Asiatic Turkey were repre- 

 sented last year under Turkey in Europe, 

 which accounts in part for a number of the 

 changes affecting the respective representa- 

 tions from the two continents in question. 

 Harvard draws the largest number of stu- 

 dents from China, Cornell from India and 

 Columbia from Japan. Practically all of 

 the members of the Australian and New 

 Zealand delegations in Pennsylvania are 

 enrolled in the dental school, where most 

 of this institution's foreigners are regis- 

 tered. In fact, the greatest percentage of 

 foreign students enrolled in the universities 

 of the United States is found in the profes- 

 sional and graduate schools; if these were 

 omitted in the figures here given, the show- 

 ing of the larger universities especially 

 would be changed considerably. 



Rudolf Tombo, Jr., 



Registrar 

 Columbia Umvebsitt 



THE RELATIONS OF THE ENGINEERING 

 SCffOOLS TO POLTTEOBNW INDUS- 

 TRIAL EDUCATION^ 

 The impulses which caused the settlers 

 of New England to found schools and col- 

 leges simultaneously with clearing the land 

 for their dwellings seem to have univer- 

 sally affected the pioneers of this country, 



^Address of president of the Society for the 

 Promotion of Engineering Education, delivered at 

 Cleveland, O., July 2, at the annual meeting of the 

 society. • 



