November 29, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



737 



out of the system inaugurated by the establish- 

 ment of the new graduate school of applied sci- 

 ence in 1906. This establishment has encouraged 

 many students who were studying for the scien- 

 tific professions to exchange the prescribed groups 

 of studies in the scientific school for a more liberal 

 course of studies in Hai-vard College, with the 

 intention of doing their more advanced and spe- 

 cialized work in science, after graduation from the 

 college, in the new graduate school of applied 

 science. The gradual disappearance of the under- 

 graduate scientific programs, and the absorption 

 of their students in Harvard College may be ex- 

 pected. The schools of law and medicine show 

 gains in enrollment, agriculture has lost twenty- 

 one, divinity six, while the attendance on the 

 graduate schools and the school of dentistry has 

 remained stationary. The summer session shows 

 a gain of fifty-one students. Of the graduate stu- 

 dents, fifty-five are registered at Eadoliflfe. 



Langdell Hall, the new building of the law 

 school, costing between $300,000 and $400,000, is 

 now ready for partial occupancy. 



Within the last month the university has re- 

 ceived a gift of about 2,000 acres of valuable tim- 

 ber land in Petersham, Massachusetts, which is 

 ofi^ered as a special adjunct to the division of for- 

 estry, and therefore as part of the equipment of 

 the graduate school of applied science. The forest 

 included in this gift comprises what is probably 

 the best body of timber now to be found on an 

 equal area in Massachusetts. The division of 

 forestry will supervise the Petersham forest, and 

 conduct there a large part of its instruction. Ac- 

 cording to the probable arrangement of the cur- 

 riculum, students who enter the graduate school 

 of applied science to study forestry will be in 

 residence at Petersham during a considerable part 

 of the year. There they will take up in the first 

 of their regular two years' course, and largely in 

 the field, all their elementary work, including tree 

 botany, the theory and practise of forest mensura- 

 tion, and the whole subject of silviculture. This 

 will lead them directly to the work of their final 

 year, which is mainly devoted to lumbering, forest 

 engineering, and the study of forest production as 

 applied to actual problems. They will secure in 

 combination the advantages of the German Meis- 

 terschule, with its provision of practical experi- 

 ence under direction, and of the university forest 

 school, with its broad attention to theory and 

 principle. 



By the will of Mrs. Sarah E. Potter, of Boston, 

 the university received in June, 1907, a bequest of 



$50,000 to be used and applied In connection with 

 the Gray herbarium. As one of a number of 

 residuary legatees, the university has subsequently 

 received from the executors an addition to this 

 endowment consisting of cash and securities of an 

 estimated value of $130,000. 



The Umversity of Illinois shows consist- 

 ent gains in every department, with the ex- 

 ception of medicine (where there has been 

 a loss of 34 students), of dentistry (which 

 reports a loss of 10), and of the schools of 

 art and music (where the registration has 

 remained stationary). The largest gain is 

 in the school of pharmacy, namely, one of 

 89 students, while agTiculture has gained 

 58 and the scientific schools 39. The stu- 

 dents mentioned under "other courses" 

 are enrolled in the five-year library course. 

 The students enrolled under the head of 

 ' ' commerce ' ' were last year included under 

 the college of arts. These men have com- 

 plied in full with the requirements for ad- 

 mission to the university, that is, they 

 have completed the usual high school 

 course, so that they are properly included 

 here and not under the head of extension 

 and similar courses. The commerce course 

 is one of four years. There has been a 

 gain of 53 students in the summer session, 

 the increase in the grand total amounting 

 to 362. 



Indiana Umversity reports a gain of 47 

 in its school of medicine and of 12 in its 

 school of law, while the number of women 

 in the academic department has remained 

 stationary. The students in the graduate 

 schools have been reported separately for 

 the first time, and some of these may have 

 been included under the academic depart- 

 ment in previous years, thus partly ex- 

 plaining the loss of 89 male students in the 

 college of arts. The summer session shows 

 a gain of 39, the gain in the gTand total 

 being one of 152. 



Inasmuch as the University of Iowa is 

 included for the first time this year, no 

 comparisons by faculties can be made with 



