November 29, 1907] 



SCIENCE 



739 



to an attendance ranging from 800 to 1,500. The 

 result is a unified college spirit, and, in all proba- 

 bility, the main contributing cause to the complete 

 cessation of student disturbances. During the 

 past two years there has not been a class fight or 

 a single case of hazing at the University of Kan- 

 sas. Every student enterprise receives marked 

 support; 1,400 students have paid voluntarily two 

 dollars each into a student enterprise fund which 

 is managed by the university and distributed 

 among the athletic, musical and debating organ- 

 izations of the students. The payment of this sum 

 entitles the student to admission to all entertain- 

 ments by these organizations. 



The total enrollment of the University 

 of Michigan shows a gain of 279 students 

 over last year, the increase in the fall regis- 

 tration alone amounting to 318. The 

 largest gains have been registered in the 

 academic department and in the scientific 

 schools, the graduate school, and the schools 

 of law, dentistry and pharmacy having 

 remained stationary. Medicine shows an 

 increase of 22 students. 



Beginning with the fall of 1909, admis- 

 sion to the medical school will be exclu- 

 sively through the literary department, 

 and no student will be admitted to the 

 medical school who has not secured sixty 

 hours of credit from the literary depart- 

 ment.— The fees in the law school have 

 been increased by ten dollars a year. 



A new dental building, to cost $150,000, 

 is in course of construction ; also an alumni 

 memorial building and art gallery to cost 

 $200,000. Plans are being prepared for a 

 chemical building to cost $250,000. 



The largest gain at the University of 

 Minnesota has been made in the college of 

 agriculture, there being 164 more students 

 than there were last year. The scientific 

 schools report an increase of 51, the school 

 of pharmacy of 14, and the school of den- 

 tistry of 13, students. There are 44 more 

 women in the academic department, but 

 6 less men. The professional faculties of 

 law and medicine both show a decrease — 

 the former of 17, the latter of 21, students, 



while the graduate schools have gained 12. 

 The summer session remained stationary, 

 the gain in the grand total amounting to 

 263. The registrar reports as follows : 



Undoubtedly the standard for admission to the 

 professional and technical schools will continue 

 to be raised. The college of medicine and surgery 

 requires two full years of college work as pre- 

 medieal preparation. It has gone a step further 

 and now specifies that these two years shall in- 

 clude a year of physics, a year of general inor- 

 ganic chemistry, one year of qualitative analysis, 

 one year of biology and one year of language, 

 either German or French. — The college of law is 

 now admitting graduates from accredited scliools, 

 and will undoubtedly require one or two years of 

 academic work in the near future. — The college of 

 engineering is considering the advisability of ex- 

 tending the present four-year course to five or six 

 years, and including correlated courses in the 

 college of science, literature and the arts. A 

 combination of work in the college of science, 

 literature and the arts with the courses in the 

 professional schools seems to be more in demand. 

 Students may now in their senior year in the col- 

 lege of science, literature and the arts elect den- 

 tistry, and thereby receive two degrees in six 

 years. Students may elect medicine in their 

 senior year and receive two degrees in seven years, 

 or by electing law receive two degrees in six years. 



The total registration at the University 

 of Missouri shows a gain of 203, no un- 

 usual conditions having afi'ected the in- 

 crease in registration. The percentage of 

 increase for the entire university is prac- 

 tically the same as during the last three or 

 four years. The decreased registration in 

 the professional faculties of law and medi- 

 cine is ascribed to increased entrance re- 

 quirements recently established for these 

 departments. The only other school regis- 

 tering a loss is that of pedagogy, where 

 there are 25 students less than there were 

 last year. 



The total attendance at the University 

 of Nebraska is practically identical with 

 that of last year, although a gain is ex- 

 pected before the close of the year. In last 

 year's table 200 students were included 

 under "other courses," whereas no figures 



