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SCIENCE 



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that report their forestry students under a 

 separate category have made gains in this 

 direction. Music, pharmacy and veteri- 

 nary medicine remain fairly uniform, 

 losses in some of the institutions being bal- 

 anced by gains in others. Columbia is the 

 only university that reports a noteworthy 

 gain in pedagogy. The most consistent 

 and largest gains in the actual number of 

 students have been registered by the sum- 

 mer sessions, California, Chicago and Yale 

 being the only schools that have suffered 

 an appreciable decrease in enrollment. 



Harvard continues to maintain the large 

 lead that it has held for a number of years 

 in the academic department. Inasmuch as 

 Cornell and Syracuse do not separate men 

 from women in the academic statistics, it is 

 difScult to determine the exact order for 

 men only, but taking both men and women 

 into consideration, the order would be 

 Harvard, Michigan, Wisconsin, Stanford, 

 Chicago, Minnesota, California, Syracuse, 

 Yale, Columbia— all of these enrolling over 

 one thousand academic students. The 

 largest number of scientific students is still 

 found at Cornell, Michigan and Illinois 

 being the only others that attract over one 

 thousand students to their scientific schools ; 

 these are followed by Yale, Wisconsin, 

 Ohio State, California, Pennsylvania, Ne- 

 braska, Minnesota, Missouri and Columbia, 

 the order being exactly the same as last 

 year, while Princeton has this fall joined 

 the institutions that register an attend- 

 ance of over five hundred scientific stu- 

 dents. New York University continues to 

 have the largest law school among the in- 

 stitutions in the list, with Michigan second, 

 Harvard third, and Minnesota fourth. Har- 

 vard being the only one of the four to 

 demand a baccalaureate degree for admis- 

 sion. The largest medical school is still 

 found at Pennsylvania, Northwestern be- 

 ing second and New York University being 

 third. As for the graduate schools, Co- 



lumbia with an enrollment of 938 students 

 (to the 715 in the table should be added 

 223 graduate students in Teachers College, 

 who are omitted in the table for the sake 

 of avoiding double registration) has by far 

 the largest. Harvard with 442, Chicago 

 with 381, and Wisconsin with 353 students, 

 following in the order named. Minnesota 

 has the largest school of agriculture, en- 

 rolling more than twice as many students 

 as Illinois, its closest numerical competitor, 

 while the latter leads in students of archi- 

 tecture, being followed by Columbia. New 

 York University has the largest school of 

 commerce, Pennsylvania has the largest 

 number of dental students. Northwestern 

 continues to lead in divinity, and Yale in 

 forestry, although, as pointed out last year, 

 some of the state institutions that include 

 forestry under agriculture or elsewhere 

 may actually have more students of 

 forestry than Yale; Syracuse still has the 

 largest school of music, and Columbia the 

 largest school of pedagogy, while the col- 

 lege of pharmacy of the University of Illi- 

 nois has passed Columbia's. As for the 

 summer session of 1907, Chicago, Columbia, 

 Harvard and Michigan attracted over one 

 thotisand students, Cornell, Indiana, Wis- 

 consin and Illinois following in the order 

 given. In the field of extension teaching 

 the University of Chicago occupies a 

 unique position, Columbia being the only 

 other institution in the list that is pushing 

 this phase of work with energy. Columbia 

 continues to maintain the largest number 

 of officers. 



The reporting ofSeers of the various in- 

 stitutions have in several cases kindly 

 furnished interesting information with re- 

 gard to changes in registration, equipment, 

 etc., all of which is embodied in the follow- 

 ing paragraphs. Wherever no such infor- 

 mation was given, the comparison is based 

 upon the figures contained in the table of 

 last year (Science, December 21, 1906). 



