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slight. The engineering school and the 

 teachers college show an apparent loss, but 

 this is due to the fact that last year the 

 enrolhnent in these schools included a 

 number of duplicates which have been 

 eliminated this year. 



The buildings now under construction are tlie 

 Bowne hall of chemistry, which is, however, partly- 

 occupied; the Lyman hall of natural history, a 

 section of which is occupied; the stadium, to seat 

 20,000 people, which will require about a month's 

 work to finish, and the gymnasium, the founda- 

 tions of which are in. The latter is to be a four- 

 story building with glass dome. The plans call 

 for a structure 150 X 210 feet. The ground floor 

 comprises rooms for home and visiting teams near 

 the entrance to the stadium, for a bowling alley 

 and baseball cage, for a rowing-room and a swim- 

 ming-pool and for offices; the first floor contains 

 a large social hall, shower-room and drying-room, 

 trophy-room, etc., also 3,750 lockers. The second 

 floor contains the gymnasium proper, 100 X 208 

 feet, a kitchen, property-room, rooms for man- 

 agers, coaches, etc. The top floor has the running 

 track, twelve laps to the mile, lighted from above. 

 The gymnasium will be nearly two years in 

 building. 



The University of Virginia shows a gain 

 of 12 in its total, there being an increase 

 of 38 men in the academic department, and 

 of 15 in law, which more than offsets the 

 loss of 9 in the scientific schools, of 30 in 

 the school of medicine, and of 13 in the 

 graduate school. 



The following is the i*eport from the 

 University of Wisconsin; 



The total increase in attendance at the univer- 

 sity this year, as compared with last year's regis- 

 tration for the corresponding date, is 309. A loss 

 of four students is shown in the college of law; 

 this is probably due to the fact that the college 

 has just added an additional requirement of one 

 year's college work for admission, making the re- 

 quirement for admission to the college of law two 

 years of college credit, instead of one, as was 

 required for last year. Our courses in commerce, 

 pedagogy and pharmacy are included under the 

 general head of the college of arts, and are integral 

 parts of this college. The enumeration of the 

 students taking these courses, therefore, with the 

 exception of pharmacy, is included under the gen- 



eral head of college of arts. On the other hand, 

 the number of graduate students has been deducted 

 from the separate colleges, where they were in- 

 cluded last year, and are given now only under the 

 head of graduate school. In the graduate school 

 are included the graduate students in attendance 

 at our summer session, the total number of 353 

 graduate students including 151 who were in at- 

 tendance at the summer session only, and this 

 latter number is consequently deducted in deter- 

 mining the grand total. The summer session 

 graduate students are affiliated with this school, 

 and many of them become candidates for the 

 higher degrees on the completion of their work, 

 which is limited entirely to attendance at the 

 summer session. 



Owing to a decrease in the summer-ses- 

 sion attendance, the grand total of stu- 

 dents in attendance at Tale University this 

 fall shows a loss of 42 compared with last 

 year. The summer session is to be with- 

 drawn entirely in 1908. The largest gain, 

 one of 46 students, has been made by the 

 school of law, while the Sheffield scientific 

 school shows a gain of 32. In addition to 

 the 961 students mentioned in the table, 

 there are 145 graduate students in the sci- 

 entific school who are included under 

 "graduate school." The academic de- 

 partment has lost 36 students, and it is in- 

 teresting to observe in this connection that 

 the gain in the academic department since 

 the fall of 1904 is one of 28 students, as 

 against an increase of 187 students in the 

 Sheffield scientific school. Medicine re- 

 ports a loss of 18, and the graduate school 

 one of 17 students, while the other depart- 

 ments have remained practically uniform. 



In endeavoring to compile a table show- 

 ing the number of degrees granted by the 

 various institutions in the list during the 

 academic year 1906-07, considerable diffi- 

 culty was experienced by reason of the 

 large variety of degrees awarded. Al- 

 though it was found impracticable to pre- 

 sent this material in tabular form, it may 

 nevertheless be of interest to consider 

 some comparisons in this field. Taking the 



