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the ease, or that those who received the 

 degree of doctor of philosophy were of 

 greater average ability or better average 

 training than graduates in medicine or law. 

 The supply of men for academic positions 

 and for positions in the government service 

 and other places where the ability to eon- 

 duct independent research should be a 

 requisite is inadequate, and it is to be 

 feared that it does not represent the intel- 

 lectual aristocracy of the nation. 



Table III. shows the number of degrees 

 conferred in the sciences enumerated in 



TABLE III. 

 DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN THE SCIENCES 



Hopkins 



Chicago 



Harvard 



Columbia 



Yale 



Cornell 



Penna 



Clark 



WiscoDsin 



Michigan 



California 



Geo. Wash 



Nebraska 



Brown 



Stanford 



Princeton 



Virginia 



Bryn Mawr 



Iowa 



Minnesota 



Washington 



New York 



Catholic 



Illinois 



Kansas 



Mass. Inst 



Missouri 



N. Carolina 



Vanderbilt 



Wash. & Lee.... 



Colorado... ;« 



Lehigh 



Northwestern.. 



Boston 



Cincinnati 



Dartmouth 



Georgetown 



Lafayette 



Syracuse 



19 



12 



11 



10 



11 



11 



8 



12 



2 







1 



1 



2 



1 



2 











1 















1 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Total 105 106 102 127 103 134 129 143 140 143 1232 45 



168 



164 



141 



134 



124 



104 



90 



77 



28 



28 



24 



17 



13 



12 



11 



11 



11 



10 



7 



7 



7 



6 



5 



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55 

 46 

 42 

 42 

 40 

 57 

 40 

 89 

 33 

 41 

 73 

 60 

 65 

 52 

 78 

 42 

 39 

 48 

 64 

 29 



100 

 9 

 25 

 60 



100 



100 

 75 

 60 

 50 

 75 

 40 



100 

 50 

 2 



100 

 33 

 10 

 83 

 50 



degrees in the humanities and in the sci- 

 ences has not altered appreciably in the 

 ten years covered by these statistics. The 

 Johns Hopkins has conferred more degrees 

 in the sciences than any other institution, 

 but is closely followed by Chicago and at 

 a not very considerable distance by Har- 

 vard, Columbia and Tale. Fifty-five per 

 cent, of the degrees conferred at the Johns 

 Hopkins have been in the sciences, and 57 

 per cent, at Cornell, whereas in the other 

 leading institutions the percentage is de- 

 cidedly less— 46 at Chicago, 42 at Harvard 

 and Columbia and 40 at Yale and Penn- 

 sylvania. It is rather surprising to note 

 that at Wisconsin only one third of the 

 degrees are in the sciences. At California 

 and Stanford, where the numbers* are, how- 

 ever, too few to give reliable figures, the 

 percentages are 73 and 78. 



Table IV. gives the degrees conferred in 

 each of the sciences. Chemistry, as always, 

 leads with about the usual number of de- 

 grees. There is an increase this year in 

 the number of degrees in physics and zool- 

 ogy, 22 and 18, respectively, and a decrease 

 in the number in psychology to 10. In 

 previous years sociology and education 



TABLE IV. 

 DOCTORATES CONFERRED IN THE SCIENCES 



Table IV. Of 2,715 degrees conferred 

 during the past ten years, 1,232, somewhat 

 less than half, have been in the natural and 

 exact sciences. The relative proportion of 



Chemistry 



Physics 



Zoology 



Psychology 



Botany 



Mathematics.... 



Geology 



Physiology 



Astronomy 



Paleontology.... 

 Bacteriology.... 

 Anthropology . 



Agriculture 



Anatomy 



Engineering.... 



Mineralogy 



Pathology 



Metallurgy 



Geography 



Meteorology.... 



Total 105 106 102 



127 103 134 129 143 140 143 



155 



147 



134 



126 



121 



71 



41 



34 



16 



14 



ID 



10 



9 



8 



6 



5 



3 



1 



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