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gain of 36 in the department of archi- 

 tecture. 



The school of law, which now demands a 

 baccalaureate degTce for admission, shows 

 a slight loss, namely, from 261 to 247. 

 The entering class is a little smaller than 

 that of last year, containing 103 students, 

 inclusive of 18 seniors from Columbia Col- 

 lege; the latter, however, are not counted 

 . in the total for the school. The standards 

 for admission and advancement to the 

 medical school were increased several years 

 ago, and as a result there has been a 

 gradual falling off in numbers, the figures 

 for this year being 298, as against 352 in 

 1906. Ten Columbia College students are 

 also registered in the school, bringing the 

 actual total to 308. The college of phar- 

 macy shows a decrease from 254 to 229, 

 this loss also being due to the stricter re- 

 quirements for entrance first enforced in 

 1905. The entering class, however, is 

 larger than it was last year. Teachers 

 College has increased its enrollment by no 

 less than 165 students, in spite of the fact 

 that its second-year class has been 

 abolished, its first-year class having been 

 withdrawn last fall. The grand total this 

 year is 891, of whom 223 are candidates 

 for the higher degrees (A.M. and Ph.D.). 



The summer session of 1907 was the 

 largest in the history of the institution, 

 1,350 students having been enrolled on 

 Morningside Heights and 42 at the college 

 of physicians and surgeons, the total num- 

 ber representing an increase of 351 over 

 the summer of 1906. There is also a large 

 gain in the number of students registered 

 in extension courses, and the evening tech- 

 nical courses, first established last winter, 

 have become exceedingly popular. The 

 number of officers has increased from 571 

 in 1906 to 646 in 1907, this being exclusive 

 of the instructors in the Horace Mann and 

 Speyer schools. 



The only new building to be chronicled 



this fall is Brooks Hall, the Barnard dormi- 

 tory for women. Kent Hall, a half-mil- 

 lion-dollar building for the school of law, 

 is in process of erection. Hamilton Hall, 

 erected at a cost of $500,000 for Columbia 

 College, the undergraduate academic de- 

 partment, was completed and occupied last 

 February, as was St. Paul's Chapel, the 

 cost of the latter being about $300,000. 

 Teachers College is erecting a domestic 

 economy building, an anonymous donor 

 having recently presented $400,000 for the 

 development and support of a school of 

 domestic economy. The university resi- 

 dence halls, Hartley and Livingston, are 

 almost full at this writing, over five hun- 

 dred rooms being occupied. 



The incumbent of the Kaiser WiUielm 

 professorship this year is Professor Rudolf 

 Leonhard, dean of the faculty of law of 

 the University of Breslau, President Had- 

 ley of Yale being the second inctimbent of 

 the Theodore Roosevelt professorship at the 

 University of Berlin. 



At Cornell University the largest gains 

 have been made by the scientific schools, 

 the total increase being one of 89 students. 

 The school of agriculture has gained 69, 

 the academic department 48, and the school 

 of architecture 17, students. On the other 

 hand, the professional schools of law and 

 medicine both show a decrease, the former 

 of 6, the latter of 20, students, while the 

 graduate school and the school of veteri- 

 nary medicine both have 7 students less 

 than last year. The 244 students men- 

 tioned under "other courses" are those in 

 attendance on the short winter session in 

 agriculture, there being 4 less than last 

 year. The summer session shows an in- 

 crease of 113 students, the grand total be- 

 ing 218 in excess of last year. 



Harvard University reports as follows: 



The increase of numbers in Harvard College, 

 and the falling off in the Lawrence Scientific 

 School, is to be explained by the gradual working 



